"David Nadlinger" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 1/6/11 11:47 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> Mercurial on dsource.org . > > Personally, I'd really like to persuade Walter, you, and whoever else > actually decides this to consider hosting the main repository at an > external place like GitHub or Mercurial, because DSource has been having > some real troubles with stability, although it got slightly better again > recently. The problem is somewhat alleviated when using a DVCS, but having > availabilities the main source repositories is not quite the best form of > advertisement for a language. > > Additionally, the UI of GitHub supports the scenario where only a few > people (or Walter alone) actually have commit/push access to the main > repository really well through cheap forks which stay logically connected > to he main repository and merge requests. The ability to make comments on > specific (lines in) commits, also in combination with pull requests, is > awesome as well. > > I would also like to suggest Git over Mercurial, though this is mostly > personal preference - it is used more widely, it has GitHub and Gitorious > (I'm having a hard time finding Bitbucket comparable personally), it's > proven to work well in settings where the main tree is managed by a single > person (->Linux), it tries not artificially restricting you as much as > possible (something I imagine Walter might like), . - but again, it's > probably a matter of taste, I don't want to start a flamewar here. >
I've never used github, but I have used bitbucket and I truly, truly hate it. Horribly implemented site and an honest pain in the ass to use.
