David,
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 Dec 2013, at 13:18, Richard Frith-Macdonald < > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> (and I wonder how many people find the source mirror on github and > think there hasn’t been a commit in over three months, too). > > > > I agree ... mirroring to github seems to have been a mistake. I'm > pretty sure Greg wrote warnings with it to say it was a reads-only mirror, > but warnings are not sufficient as people don't read/notice them. > I did, and you're correct, people didn't realize it was read only. I would still like to get the github mirror working again as it was spurring interest and allowing others to leverage GNUstep code more easily. > Having a buggy mirror on GitHub is a mistake, but for LLVM and FreeBSD > we've found it increases the number of contributors if done correctly. > GitHub, much as I dislike its UI, is one of the least-bad hosting > providers out there for open source projects and is very popular. We're > using it for a few projects here because it's the easiest way of setting up > something that everyone can use. > > I agree with this. The issue is that I had a server which was running the git mirror, but the site which ran the server went out of business and I didn't realize it. By the time I noticed the server was offline, it was too late. The same scripts don't seem to work on my other machine here so I've been trying to get the mirror scripts I had written back up and running locally without success. > One of the side effects of git sucking so much is that lots of people have > written good tools around it so that most of the time you can avoid having > to interact with git. > Indeed. > Oh, and one of the less-advertised features on github is that all of the > git repos there are also svn repos. You can do an svn co of a GitHub repo > and it Just Works™. I think they're also adding hg. > Very cool. There's also an ObjC framework for the GitHub API, but I don't know if > anyone's tried it with GNUstep: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.objc > > Nope, I think it's worth a shot, though. > I would actually be in favour of making the GitHub repository the > authoritative one, as it lets you work with git or svn and it's a lot more > approachable for new developers than gna.org. > > We should discuss this. I wouldn't mind either. > David > > -- Sent from my STANTEC-ZEBRA > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- Gregory Casamento Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) http://www.gnustep.org http://heronsperch.blogspot.com
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