Ashley Moran wrote: > What GitHub does really well is build a community around the repos. > They could have used Hg or bzr or pretty much and DVCS and been as > successful, but they (unfortunately) chose git.
I feel bad because I predicted just about everything that GitHub does 2 years ago, but have had a snail's pace in comparison (I'm a student and it's a side project), if anyone with a Python and Django Framework interest wants a Darcs-related project to hack on (or otherwise support), I've got a lot of ideas and some work in progress code that I would be willing to lead towards near-GitHub-ness. I've got some changes I've been planning to do ASAP (important refactoring for Darcs 2 support, plus post-nfa merge changes, if you know Django), but I've been waiting until I do a Darcs 2 conversion of the repository (which I've been waiting until I figure out how to get a working Darcs 2 on my debian virtual server), and so I'd been waiting for after the conversion to again attempt to recruit co-developers... (If you want to see something of the current state it's self-hosting at http://darcsforge.code.worldmaker.net/ for now. Planning to migrate it over to self.darcsforge.org once it gets closer to "shippable"/"marketable"...) Lately I've been excited because Darcs 2 is particularly wonderful to build a better, cheaper GitHub-like system against, thanks to the DARCS_PATCHES_XML posthook environment variable, the global cache and the contributed ability to do a ``darcs send`` directly as an HTTP POST. With POST support I think that projects could get away with never worrying about an SSH jail and instead I'd just write some nice Patch management code (which has been on my agenda for a while anyway, because a smart patch manager could be shared with an issue tracker, forum software, Trac+Darcs perhaps, or whatever else people might want to attach patches to). Just some of my thoughts on the subject, -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
