On 6/14/18 4:59 PM, Thomas wrote:
Pull requests are not supported, hence the software can't be used for
community driven open source.
The Tcl/Tk project uses Fossil, and it's a rather large project with a
decent-sized community:
http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/wiki?name=Index
http://core.tcl.tk/tk/timeline?y=ci
Pull requests are only one way to handle patches. A developer can fork
Tcl or Tk into a branch, change it, test it, and then merge it back into
the main line of development. That works well if you are one of the
developers with commit access, which isn't too hard to get. If you don't
have a commit bit, well, you can still send a patch to one of the core
maintainers such as myself: that method has worked well since the early
1990s and is still valid. I'm happy to commit a patch that improves some
aspect of Tk.
A lot of what we're seeing here is a generational dispute about
development methodologies: greybeards like myself are fine with patches
and mailing lists, while younger folks prefer Github, pull requests, and
forums. I've dabbled a bit with Github, send a few pull requests and
managed a couple of projects there, but I'm not really sold on it;
mainly I prefer Fossil for my own projects as well as for Tcl/Tk. Fossil
is absolutely beautiful for smaller projects such as my own, which
allows me to self-host Fossil on a shared GoDaddy server with a single
binary installation.
--Kevin
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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com
http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com
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