On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 15:46, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 22:49 -0800, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > [ . . . ] > >> Github's pull model and other social features still make it a very >> compelling choice as the public repository of a very visible open >> source project, and the fact that Kenai when run by Sun has been an >> abysmal failure doesn't really inspire confidence. > > Or you could use Mercurial on BitBucket or Bazaar on Launchpad. Git is > not the only option. Indeed for overall usability it probably comes > third behind Mercurial and Bazaar. Of course tracking branches are > Git's USP, Mercurial and Bazaar would do well to provide equivalents.
Coincidentally, I just finished listening to episode 0.4.0 of "The Changelog" (Riak Revisted). One of the topics was the recent migration of Riak from BitBucket to Github. This was driven by their developer community's preferences. Github must be doing something right. // Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
