On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:48:26 +0300, Russel Winder <rus...@russel.org.uk> wrote:

Any FOSS project allows this, you just want to use a hosting site.
Launchpad and BitBucket behave like GitHub in this respect -- I don't
know about Gitorious but I suspect it is the same.

I would expect nothing less. Human approval of projects in today's fast-moving world seems like stone-age.

And the difference with others -- except the one-click being replaced by
a command line?

Is this a serious question?
1) You don't need to take care of firewalls or your own hosting server to publish your changes
2) The repositories are semantically linked
3) Your commits will appear on the project's network graph, allowing anyone to merge/cherry-pick them

Personal workflow, the model is not special.

If you say so.

Git and GitHub are not special in any of the above points.

Sorry, I disagree. The second best project hosting website that I saw which allows this kind of implicit interoperability between forks was Launchpad.

I stand on my point that GitHub would fit D's development model the best of all other solutions that I noticed. Because D's project maintenance is not very reliable, anyone can start their own fork and e.g. add certain patches from Bugzilla. GitHub's network graph gives you the current state of a project of all its forks at a glance, which is extremely useful, and the next best thing is Launchpad's list of branches sorted by last activity.

Disregarding the capabilities of project hosting websites and judging the tools alone is absurd, IMO (unless your project's intended contributor audience dislikes project hosting websites as much as you do).

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