On Oct 7, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Chris Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> moving to GitHub doesn't magically make more interested parties make quality >> contributions. > > I agree that moving to github is not going to suddenly make people where not > not previously looking for a packaging system for OSX suddenly start using > macports. However, I completely agree with Marcel that moving to github will > mean if someone does find their way to macports they will be more likely to > stay and contribute, as the chances are they will already be familiar with > git, as thats what the cool kids do these days. Currently, once they find out > about svn, and trac, and yes i agree the little tired looking web pages, i > suspect they are more likely to drift away. So the move to git will help.
the cool kids also aren't writing 'tcl' these days ... -- Daniel J. Luke _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
