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| From | Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in |
| Date | 2016-01-03 16:58 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n6c5cg$hnf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 1/2/16 11:43 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > That and other vendor-locked workflow aspects of GitHub makes it a poor > choice for communities that want to retain the option of control over > their processes and data. The Tcl community has moved to Fossil with great success: http://www.fossil-scm.org Lightweight DCVS, integrated bug tracking, rock-solid code (authored by D. Richard Hipp, uses SQLite as its store). The transition was non-trivial: the Tcl core developers had to move over a decade of commit history from CVS at Sourceforge to Fossil, which they did, successfully. One of the reasons Fossil was chosen is exactly this: to maintain the code independent of a third-party platform. (At the time of the transition, in 2011, Sourceforge was removing support for CVS, they had a server outage for over a week, and other issues were giving the community pause on continuing to use SF for hosting.) I'm not a hardcore Git user so have no substantive opinions on the merits of Git or Github per se: I have a Github account and have contributed code via pull requests to projects hosted on it. But I found learning Fossil very simple. And using Fossil does not preclude mirroring the codebase in Git; there is a Tcl/Tk mirror at Github. Just a thought. --Kevin -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com
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Re: We will be moving to GitHub Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 13:58 -0600
Re: We will be moving to GitHub Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-01 12:33 -0800
Re: We will be moving to GitHub Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 14:46 -0600
Re: We will be moving to GitHub Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-01 13:19 -0800
Re: We will be moving to GitHub Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-02 18:02 +1100
Re: We will be moving to GitHub Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 20:31 -0700
GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in (was: We will be moving to GitHub) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-03 15:43 +1100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in (was: We will be moving to GitHub) Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2016-01-02 20:56 -0800
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-01-03 02:04 -0500
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-01-03 08:44 +0100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-03 19:03 +1100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-01-03 09:33 +0100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-03 19:45 +1100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 20:18 +1100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-01-03 04:31 -0500
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-03 01:50 -0800
Re: [python] Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> - 2016-01-03 01:42 -0800
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-03 20:46 +1100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 21:17 +1100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 21:24 +1100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-03 02:42 -0800
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 23:33 +1100
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-03 21:29 -0800
Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-01-04 08:02 +0100
Re: GitHub's ©¯pull request© is proprietary lock-in Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2016-01-03 12:51 -0800
Re: GitHub's �pull request� is proprietary lock-in Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 08:05 -0700
Re: GitHub's �pull request� is proprietary lock-in Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 08:14 -0700
Re: GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2016-01-03 16:58 -0500
Re: GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in m <mvoicem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 11:21 +0100
Re: GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 10:41 -0700
Re: GitHub's "pull request" is proprietary lock-in Josef Pktd <josef.pktd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 13:29 -0800
Re: GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in m <mvoicem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 01:24 +0100
Re: GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-01-03 19:51 -0500
Re: GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 21:16 -0700
Re: GitHub's “pull request” is proprietary lock-in Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-01-03 23:58 -0500
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