Hi guys,

I'm in the process of moving my personal projects to Github using Google
code exporter. As of now, it failed because too much traffic... The
procedure seems quite straightforward though, just click...

I would really stay away from Sourceforge, it's too old, lots of ads, slow,
lots of maintenance. Googlecode somewhat was created to compete sites like
SF...

As for github vs bitbucket, it seems github seems more famous, bitbucket
seems to host mostly python project (it's written in python though not
related): http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~bmiller/top50.html (not sure about how
reliable is the page though). Github is the one I always hear about the
most, both for open source projects & jobs announcements. It seems the
pricing isn't done the same (see bitbucket page, free for 5 users only). I
guess you won't take any risk moving to github, there are so many famous
projects here, and you will gain a better visibility than GC.

Finally, and most importantly, wherever you decide to go, you'll be using
git (or mercurial) a decentralized source version control system. SVN is
not decentralized, it's centralized on googlecode for instance, there's one
repo people are committing to. Decentralized repo means you have your own
repo on your PC (as if you were hositng the server), then repos are synced
when users "push" or "pull" (following git terminology) code using an
"origin". This is a huge difference, allowing many interesting things (like
private commits, offline work), but it adds complexity. Git is more complex
(I don't know for Hg), it requires time to handle it, but it's powerful,
and clearly something to consider nowadays.

FWIW, HTH
Cheers
s.





On 14 March 2015 at 08:53, Rob Hamerling <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 2015-03-13 22:47, Matthew Schinkel wrote:
>
>> I received an email last night saying google code is going away. Looks
>> like we will be moving our SVN repository and everything else on our google
>> code site at https://code.google.com/p/jallib/
>>
>>  We have to choose where to go: Github, SourceForge, Bitbucket or ??
> Reading the Google text I got the impression the Github is preferred, but
> why? Are there arguments pro of contra any of these?
>
> Regards, Rob.
>
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