Re: [Vim-latex-devel] which github repository is more official?

[Ted P. <te...@te...>]

> sf is a badly designed website. I have a much harder time to find the
> things that I need on sf than on github.

sf and github have two completely different purposes. github is
primarily meant for hosting git repositories and provides some limited
ability to distribute documentation. Cloning a repo from github is
equivalent to cloning a repo from SF (unless you are using a software
package put together by the github folks).

> I haven't serious compared sf with github. But I've seen more people
> start using github rather than sf (some people also quit google code
> for github), but I have not seen a single example that quit sf for
> github. So I feel that github is the trend. Its pull request feature
> is also very convenient.

Again, I really think that github is not meant to be a substitute for
SF. If anything, it's complementary.

Google Code, however, is much more like an SF alternative. It provides
a mechanism for distributing documentation, gathering bug requests,
scrutinizing patches, and other SF-like features. Although github has
some ability to do these things, github is primarily meant to enable
developer collaboration on particular projects. It is not meant to be
the end-user front end.

> Why these people start cloning into github? My interpretation is that
> github is much more convenient and more people are using github. In
> this case, why not just host the main repository in github and stop
> using sf.

How do *you* feel that github is more convenient? Cloning is cloning,
regardless of where you are cloning from. At the level of distributing
source via a git repository, the two are equivalent. They differ in
the additional services provided to collaborating developers, but in
both cases developers can collaborate effectively without using any of
those features.

--Ted

-- 
Ted Pavlic <te...@te...>