I think it is problem that the name of "vim" is taken by someone already on github. https://github.com/vim
Could we request to concede that "vim" name if we deside to move to github? And we should ask bitbucket same thing. https://bitbucket.org/vim 2015-03-14 8:38 GMT+09:00 Mislav Marohnić <mislav.maroh...@gmail.com>: > Hi, GitHub employee here. I'm not here to talk anyone into using git over > anything else, but to provide a bit of perspective as both long-time open > source maintainer[1] and huge Vim fan[2]. > > On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 4:54:03 AM UTC-7, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >> >> Despite all the popularity of github, it doesn't seem to be able to do >> something as simple as sending a user a message. Do I need to fork a >> repostitory and send a pull request just to get someone's attention? > > It's easy to get attention of any GitHub user by @-mentioning their name in > any issue thread, pull request review conversation, commit message or commit > comment. > > I think a switch to a host such as GitHub or any alternative is a question of > much more than just picking a version control systems. I agree with others on > this thread that both git and hg are perfectly viable solutions, each in its > own way. But project management and maintenance is much more than doing > operations on the command-line. > > My suggestion is that the decision about new project home for Vim should fall > on Bram and few other people that are most heavily involved in maintaining > the project (if there are any), based on which tool they want to look at > day-to-day when they are triaging issues and reviewing code contributions & > their CI status. In my experience, these are sometimes even more > time-consuming tasks than actually writing the code. Therefore, feel and > feature set of an online code collaboration tool is important regardless of > the particular VCS that sits below it. > > Our support staff spent weeks helping make the transition of the Go project > to GitHub[3] flawless and with minimum disruption to their flow. If you do > decide to move to GitHub, give us a heads-up and we can tweak our migration > tools to your needs. Thanks! > > [1]: https://github.com/mislav > [2]: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/12/vim-revisited/ > [3]: https://github.com/golang/go -- MURAOKA Taro <koron.kaor...@gmail.com> -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
