On 7 Dec 2015, at 11:05, Luboš Doležel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I concur. We're talking about a "number of people" who would prefer Savannah, > but the amount of people actually submitting code is very low. Just going to > Savannah's website makes me feel like this is a dead project. > > If - for whatever reason - you later come to the conclusion that GitHub was > not the right choice, migrating elsewhere is a matter of hours. > > If I were Greg, I'd also consider moving the whole project away from FSF. > While I recognize the importance FSF has (had) for open source, just the need > to do a snail mail round-trip with FSF to be allowed to contribute is a great > obstacle for any FSF project. And I can tell you, a legally worthless one in > my case - the Czech law explicitly forbids reassigning copyright except in > well-defined cases (employee to employer and inheritance after author's > death).
To give a really concrete example of how : This morning, I fixed a bug in libobjc2. The person who wrote the bug is doing the rust-objc bridge. He filed the bug via GitHub, which was easy for him because all of his other projects are on GitHub and it’s a single sign in. The bug report referenced a failing test case in the Rust bridge, which I could easily see (because GitHub allows cross-referencing between projects). I was able to comment on their test case as well, to help them refine it into something that will work better as the language evolves. This is a fairly common interaction for the other projects that I use on GitHub. I have never seen this kind of thing from Savannah. David -- Sent from my PDP-11 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
