Am 28.01.2011 14:07, schrieb Bruno Medeiros: > On 07/01/2011 00:34, David Nadlinger wrote: >> 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 have to agree and reiterate this point. The issue of whether it is > worthwhile > for D to move to a DVCS (and which one of the two) is definitely a good thing > to > consider, but the issue of DSource vs. other code hosting sites is also quite > a > relevant one. (And not just for DMD but for any project.) > > I definitely thank Brad for his support and work on DSource, however I > question > if it is the best way to go for medium or large-sized D projects. Other > hosting > sites will simply offer better/more features and/or support, stability, less > bugs, spam-protection, etc.. > What we have here is exactly the same issue of NIH syndrome vs DRY, but > applied > to hosting and development infrastructure instead of the code itself. But I > think the principle applies just the same. >
D has already moved to github, see D.announce :)
