-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28.04.2014 22:42, Adrien Nader wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014, Matthew Brett wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:04 AM, John E. / TDM <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On 4/28/2014 5:17 AM, JonY wrote: >>>> mingw-w64 may migrate from svn to git in the future, seeing that sf >>>> can now do multiple repos per project. >>> *snip* >>>> Discuss. >>> >>> I'm a bit surprised at the choice of Git -- in my experience, Windows >>> developers usually prefer Mercurial (<http://mercurial.selenic.com/>) >>> because on Windows it is more lightweight and performant than Git. >>> >>> I also prefer Mercurial to Git because I find its syntax and workflow >>> more intuitive. This is of course personal taste. >>> >>> Mercurial repositories are also available in SourceForge. But if the >>> primary MinGW-w64 contributors are all more familiar with Git then I >>> suppose it shall be Git. >>> >>> My two cents. :) >> >>> From the sidelines - a big yes please for switching to git. In my >> experience, the ease of git branching makes it far more comfortable >> making and proposing changes, even substantial changes. >> >> I hear the same is true of mercurial, but I know it much less well. >> >> I very much like the github pull-request system for code review - does >> sourceforge have something similar? I know bitbucket does. For the >> projects I'm involved in, pull requests make proposing changes very >> fluid, and they are good for recording discussion as well. > > I quite dislike github and its UI in particular. Uses flash on every page > (no idea what for) and lots of javascript which makes my laptop heat and > get noisy when displaying something as small as a 3-lines diff. > > Anyway, is there an advantage github's pages over doing it on the > mailing-list like it is currently done? The amount of messages which > comes from that doesn't seem to be an issue.
You can do pull-requests with mailing lists [1] [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6235379 - -- O< ascii ribbon - stop html email! - www.asciiribbon.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTXqcYAAoJEOs4Jb6SI2CwR6cIAMPnaQ6e7kGUgnOqjS2qKvM4 zKWjGQbkkSM2Wmb02sj8W8A/gT5S5BaE5qv+P9A672xNumz0eP0DfhF15NIMpc8v d8/SrhofOoj/OZ270MSoSBhLlMuNJUJtS/HEHoAsw1ZgDQ56UN4C9ob6duuyiaJl nvWu1ut9aT911u0YEhh0KUw9lKfoD4fLxrJHsn14jVztUsAF31hp0tVQkgGNm0SD V4BWC5nUkpvPU928ZmxllfpcRLCmRbfPCyg3pab41ODQ7DJfmmZg+uf4B/YlhF0/ 5fp6EeUGPWx8+l7dSiYgxrJrtRIj31fdeMV0IQ+VQ0bYljIqGNpW0jgtHNK8Vlk= =ERLc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
