What does public host availability mean? Moving away from googlecode was the single best thing FNH did for contributions. Just because lots of people have google accounts doesn't make it a good choice.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote: > If the point is about "more chance" we should use the DVCS with more public > host availability. > Compare bitbucket with GitHub shouldn't be so hard. > > But what about clone/fork in the "evil" CodePlex > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/codeplex/archive/2010/03/05/codeplex-mercurial-support-for-forks.aspx > Probably we will see the similar features soon in GoogleCode. > > Hopefully SourceForge will add clone/fork function to external hosts for > Git and for Mercurial since SF give support to both. > > The mayor part of NH users has a google account (all NH's forums in > various languages are GoogleGroup). If you have a google account you have a > GoogleCode account. > > IMO "more chance" mean more public host availability. > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Paul Batum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Using a DVCS gives you a more pleasant development experience, but the >> move to a community focused host makes your project more attractive to >> get involved with. GitHub's network graph, fork queue, pull request >> system and the ability to watch people/projects are all valuable >> features. As an existing github user I'm obviously biased, but at >> least in my case there is more chance that NH will recieve a >> submission from me at some point in the future if its hosted on github >> because >> >> a) I will have more visibility of the work being done on NH >> b) Committing to my fork and sending a pull request is very low >> friction. >> >> On Jun 8, 11:13 pm, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > We can switch to DVCS but I don't think that we should change the host. >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Patrick Earl <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > Since Castle and Fluent NHibernate are both on github, I propose that >> > > NH be moved to github as well. GIT has great mindshare and is >> > > undoubtedly a very fast and capable system. Being on the same system >> > > as other closely related community projects will make it easier for >> > > the developers in the related projects to build off of each other's >> > > skills and code. >> > >> > > Patrick Earl >> > >> > -- >> > Fabio Maulo >> > > > > -- > Fabio Maulo > >
