Re: [Notion-devel] Reconsidering sf.net and git submodules

[Josef 'J. S. <je...@jo...>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 02:00:46PM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> Hello,

I don't develop notion so take my opinions with a large grain of salt.  Ok?
Good.

> While I'd much rather work on code (bugs and features) than infrastructure,
> I'm hearing an increasing frustration with sourceforge.net .
> 
> I'd like to hear what you all would think about moving notion to, for
> example, github.

sf is pretty frustrating.  It used to be the only way reasonable way to run
an open source project (short of running your own server), but that's no
longer true.

Let me ask you this: what features from sf/github/whatever do you want?
Obviously, the repos need to be hosted.  Do you want a mailing list?  A bug
tracker?  Anything else?

FWIW, I dislike github.  Not a day goes by when you can't pull from github
because of technical issues at their end.  Their web UI for repository
browsing outright sucks - it used to be bad, but they changed it and made it
worse.

> On a slightly related note, I've been less than happy with our experiment
> using git submodules. Right now we're using relative paths, which means
> when you want to fork notion (for example to your own github account) you
> need to fork all submodules, too.

I've only used submodules at work for some of our proprietary code... I
think the biggest issue we've ran into was lack of understanding how to use
submodules correctly.  This made them extremely frustrating and essentially
unusable.

As far as notion's use of submodules is concerned... does anyone outside of
notion care about libtu and friends?  If not, just make them part of the
notion repo.

Jeff.

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