On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:35:56AM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote:
Would anyone besides Bradley object (weakly or strongly) to my using
GitHub as the apparent one true public source code repository for
copyleft-next? (I have been mirroring [that's probably not even the
correct concept here] commits to the Gitorious repository in my GitHub
copyleft-next repository ever since using Gitorious for
copyleft-next.) Having used Gitorious for several months now, I have
to say that I don't like it.
I note that Bradley has already proposed some changes to copyleft-next
by attaching patches to mailing list posts in addition to Gitorious
merge requests. This seems to prove that someone who strongly objects
to GitHub can still actively participate in this project, at least if
I reverse my current practice and consistently mirror the GitHub
repository in the existing Gitorious repository (or some other public
git repository location that Bradley would not object to).
As long as the discussion happens on the mailing list (as opposed to
GitHub's pull request mechanism), I don't see why not. Even though I
don't object to GitHub from a moral/ethical standpoint, I find the
splitting of conversation between GitHub's web based discussion system
and mailing lists to be annoying, at least given my workflow. (i.e.,
I can download e-mail using a low-bandwidth cellular/wifi
connectionand reply off-line, which you can't do if you are using
GitHub's web based discussion interface).
(And Linus's comments about people who try to send him pull requests
via GitHub as opposed to sending patches on the mailing list is worth
reading if only because it's delivered in his usual inimitable style. :-)
- Ted