I think github is a very good choice.
It works (in contrast to gitorious) and is really fun to use.
I think the usual objections against cloud-based services don't apply here:
* they can't steal source/intellectual property because it's open source
anyway.
* a vendor-lock-in or something like that isn't really an issue either:
everyone who clones the repo has the whole history etc, so even if
github suddenly wants money or goes out of business it's easy to set up
something like gitorious again with a clone of the git repo.
This would probably make sense for iodoom3 as well, even though I'm not
sure it would help very much.. the interest in the doom3 GPL code seems
to be quite low (same for d3 bfg) and with dhewm3 there already is a
working port.. so no one will want to start again from the beginning,
even though some people seem to be unhappy with dhewm3..
Cheers,
- Daniel
Am 08.01.2013 04:50, schrieb eviljoel:
Hi,
Eh, finally replying to e-mails. Was an online hermit for the last few days.
I totally agree with moving to git and have no objection with GitHub.
But the one part of the question you didn't answer is that Zakk had
some reason for moving Doom3 from GitHub in the first place. Maybe he
didn't like a big corporation controlling his repositories or
something like that??? I guess what I want to know is what his
problem was with GitHub and what made him change his mind.
And I guess you are right, I am mostly curious about this because of
ioDoom3. I don't want to put in a lot of time improving the server if
we are just going to move to GitHub soon anyway. I guess I'll ask
Zakk about that one-on-one. (Plus this is the wrong list for that.)
Thanks for your input Ryan.
Laters,
eviljoel
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Ryan C. Gordon<iccu...@icculus.org> wrote:
There was also the whole Mercurial debate not too long ago.
The consensus was that I liked Mercurial, and everyone else liked git. :)
Moving off svn is a no-brainer in 2013...it's old and busted. Git is fine,
and my experience is that most people don't want just a git repo, they
specifically want GitHub (and those that don't want GitHub...hey, you still
get a standard git repo from it!).
Also: this is where id software has their canonical repos for their open
source releases, now, too.
Also: as I'm sure you've discovered recently, keeping Gitorious running is a
big pain in the ass. :) I don't know what zakk wants to do with iodoom3,
but if we're going to make a switch for ioquake3, we might as well go to a
nice infrastructure that someone else keeps up and running for us.
--ryan.
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