On 01/20/2015 07:20 PM, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote:
> On 20 January 2015 at 18:02, Martin Decky <[email protected]
> <mailto:[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). 

The idea beyond switching to Git is the mere fact that Bazaar has been
on life-support for some time and that it does not bode well in the
long-term. So our only ambition is to replicate our Bazaar and Launchpad
workflow with Git and Github.

Jakub



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