Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: > in the meantime i saw Graham's email, so just a short reply: > > 2013/9/16 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: >> [github] can cause tool lock-in and so on, > > every tool can. In this case, i think that the degree of lock-in is > small and probably negligible (as Graham said, git repositories are > portable). > > Note that i'm *not* proposing to move LilyPond development to Github. > I just want to organize stuff that's already there, and give LilyPond > wide exposure by hosting a "semi-official" repository clone there. > >> With Savannah, we have system >> administrators sympathetic to our cause rather than their business >> model. And the LilyPond project is quite beyond a "don't care" size for >> them. > > That's good, and i'm not saying that we should abandon Savannah! > > I want LilyPond to be present on Github because it's a very widely > known platform
What for? If people want to fork LilyPond, why should we roll out the red carpet for them? They are free to do it on their own. > (according to Wikipedia, it's two orders of magnitude more popular > than Savannah: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_software_hosting_facilities#Popularity). "popular" meaning used. Not much of a surprise here: Savannah is not a free-for-all offering. You have to actually apply, and you have to meet criteria. More so if we are talking about a GNU project, of course, but that's not a condition for hosting. Savannah is not a mainstream hoster. It's a hosting service aligned with the GNU project. > Together with ease of use mentioned by Graham this can result in more > contributors joining Lily development. You mean, more non-contributors forking LilyPond Development. It is already easy to clone your own Git repository from Savannah. Anybody can set up a clone of LilyPond anywhere, including on GitHub. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
