Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] sourceforge github

[Simon B. <li...@70...>]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, at 11:24 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>        So once we have decided for git, I don't see any difference
>        between sourceforge/github/bitbucket etc, save the graphical
>        interface.
>        Does everybody agree with that? A CVCS makes the question of the
>        server less important, no?
>        Or does github has some shiny wonderful feature I oversee?

The feature github has is the large community that uses it and that it
has become the de facto standard hosting location. There are multiple
forks of matlab-mode on github because that is the easiest place for
many people to publish their changes. If we want to collect those
changes we have to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute
and for many people a github pull request is the easiest way to do that.
Working with SF is only slightly more effort, but we have to aim for the
minimum.

At the least we should have a github mirror that people can raise pull
requests against. But if we do that then the SF repo is just extra
effort.

Simon