precisely the type of cross-project interaction I'm interested in. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:14 AM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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