+1github
It's on a much higher trend for mindshare with the wider community than hg.
More docs out there and more usage, giving it much greater sustainable
momentum. Sourceforge is increasingly a disappointment, from a very early sf
adopter :(
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On 23 Nov 2010, at 20:58, Matt Zumwalt <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 for github
>
> MediaShelf has used both mercurial/bitbucket and git/github in the past 2
> years. Eventually we migrated everything to github. As you said, the
> differences between hg and git are miniscule. In fact, I mildly prefer hg in
> a couple of ways, but not enough to push me to favor one over the other. Our
> decision to switch was mostly motivated by github.
>
> Strengths of GitHub:
>
> * substantial traction -- it's quickly becoming a replacement for
> sourceforge. Also gets great google rank for your project.
> * simple, intuitive web interface -- I especially enjoy the fact that it
> renders your README file on the homepage (with markup!), gives you a
> "network" view showing all the forks of your project, and makes it easy to
> explore through all of the commit history.
>
> I have also come to appreciate the ample documentation out there for git --
> even the crazy edge cases are documented somewhere online. (FYI -
> Stackoverflow is a particularly good source for answers to git questions.)
>
> Matt Zumwalt
> MediaShelf, LLC
> http://www.yourmediashelf.com
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 23, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Chris Wilper wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Over the past few weeks, several of us have been looking into a
>> potential move of the core Fedora Repository code to GitHub. During
>> today's developer call, we decided the investigation had progressed
>> along far enough that we should call a vote. Please feel free to
>> chime in even if you aren't a committer, especially if you have
>> first-hand experience with git or another DVCS.
>>
>> Proposal: Migrate the existing subversion repository, hosted at
>> sourceforge.net, to git, hosted at github.com.
>>
>> Primary motivations:
>> 1) Ease of contributing for non-committers (the fork + pull model).
>> 2) Speed (everyone has a copy of the repo and most operations --
>> branching, merging, examining history -- are done locally)
>>
>> Why git and not some other DVCS like Mercurial? The technical
>> differences between hg and git don't seem significant enough to
>> debate. One big difference we've noted is that github seems to have
>> quite a bit more community around it than the other DVCS hosting
>> options.
>>
>> Tool support for git is pretty good these days, too:
>>
>> Git plugins exist for IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse.
>> Mature git commandline tools exist for linux, mac, and windows.
>> We have also successfully integrated:
>> a) a plugin for JIRA which provides links to github-hosted commit info
>> that relates to a particular issue.
>> b) a plugin for Bamboo (our CI server) which polls a github-hosted
>> repository.
>>
>> Voting Period: Two weeks (Ending December 7th)
>>
>> Requirement to pass: Majority (more +1 than -1 votes among committers)
>>
>> I'll register the first vote: +1
>>
>> - Chris
>>
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