On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Nicolas Silva <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think the biggest benefit of using github is not the interface >> itself, but rather the potential number of new contributors. >> Since the D programming language moved to github, it has received >> vastly more contributions from the community than ever before. >> I definitely understand the proprietary concern though. >> I like the idea of using github as a mirror rather than using it for >> the primary repository. > > Correct. But I'm unsure how a mirror is going to attract contributors.
Well, github is part of a lot of people's workflow. It is nice to use, it makes it easy to fork project, and then have your own fork where you do your own stuff, your work being versionned on github even though you actually don't have commit access to the actual project's repository. Being able to do pull requests is certainly a plus for potential contributors, but it would be quite hard to integrate to the normal review/integration process. I think making it easy (like in github-easy) for people to fork the code and hack on it while it is being versionned by github (and not just a local clone) is already something that could help getting contributors. At mozilla a lot of people use the github mirror of mozilla-central (instead of the official hg repository) even though they extract patch files and submit them on bugzilla rather than doing pull requests. Cheers, Nicolas Silva _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
