> On 7 Oct 2016, at 7:38 pm, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote: > > 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 …
Indeed, but changing that is well beyond the scope of the current discussion. It shouldn’t ave a bearing on the migration to git. > > -- > Daniel J. Luke > > > _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
