Some people can't justify hosting their sources at a 3rd party, it may not impact GNUstep as a project, but in theory one could modify the software to allow synchronizing bug reports (they may have this already I haven't looked)
I wouldn't say savannah is obscure, it just (cant figure out a way to say it politely) sucks probably as a result of being understaffed, anyway I prefer gitlab because a) it doesn't suck, b) it at least provides free software popularity contests aren't really a priority to me, github just happened to be the first to this particular race just stating my preference feel free to have a different one... On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, something even more obscure than savannah? > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:46 AM Matt Rice <ratm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Gregory Casamento >> <greg.casame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > If the consensus is to move to github, then that work is basically >> > already >> > done. The github mirror is a full mirror of all of the code in >> > subversion. >> > I agree with David. Where we are hosted is extremely important since it >> > has >> > everything to do with visibility. >> > >> > The only problem I am seeing with moving is that we may lose some >> > existing >> > contributors or, at least, piss off some existing contributors if we do >> > make >> > a move to github. Additionally, as one might predict, the FSF doesn't >> > like >> > github. So a move to github not only amounts to a move of repos, but >> > I'm >> > afraid it's also the equivalent of a fork which is not something I'm >> > opposed >> > to talking about. >> >> I tend to side with the FSF in this regard, so I'd prefer something >> like gitlab which provides hosting, as well as a free software license >> to the software they use to host... >> >> similarly it might not be a bad idea to provide a dns alias to e.g. >> git.gnustep.org to whomever is chosen to host, though I suppose >> encryption complicates the matter... _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
