On 20 January 2015 at 18:02, Martin Decky <[email protected]> wrote:

> You should consider the benefits of using GitHub for infrastructure.
>> Simply put, it makes things easier for potential contributors. With
>> project of this size, that could easily be the difference between
>> eternally dying project that is only being held afloat by a persistent
>> core team, and a flourishing growing OS project with many users.
>>
>
> I am rather sceptical about this "social power" of GitHub. This might have
> worked back in 2008, but currently there are over 16 million repositories
> on GitHub. Give or take one project -- what is the difference?
>
>
I was thinking more along the opposite direction - how likely it is for a
person who already knows about HelenOS to actually start contributing (and
continue after that).


-- Jirka Z.
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