2012/12/16 Neale Pickett <ne...@woozle.org>
> +1 I'm a fan of git; bzr confuses me.
>
> Consider gitorious instead of GitHub, though. Gitorious releases 100%
> of the source code used to run the site, and is very FOSS oriented,
> while GitHub uses proprietary software and is interested in you paying
> money for project hosting.
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:46:34 -0500
> RJ Ryan <rr...@mixxx.org> wrote:
>
> > Here's a thought. What if we moved our repos to git and hosted on
> > GitHub? We would use Launchpad for project management (bugs, specs,
> > milestones, etc) and GitHub for code and code review.
> >
> > PRO:
> >
> > - GitHub's web-based code review tool is getting better by the day.
> > - git has 'won' the battle of the DVCS's.
> > - git is lightning fast in contrast to bazaar
> > - GitHub has a very slick web interface for browsing code
> > - Contributors submit pull requests instead of patches. This way
> > they get their names in the commit log as the committer. This makes
> > attribution and copyright ownership easier to track.
> > - lightweight branches
> > - Launchpad supports pulling code / branch info from an external
> > git tree so code.launchpad.net/mixxx won't be totally useless.
> >
> >
> > CON:
> >
> > - Git is harder to use than Bazaar. Developers not familiar will
> > have to learn.
> > - Work involved in migrating scripts, build server, build system,
> > etc.
> > - Issue tracker is fledgling. We should only use GitHub for code
> > and code review, not for issues or wiki.
> > - lightweight branches -- need to hack scons to do per-branch
> > object file folders or else you will be re-building the world all
> > over the place.
> > - No link from GitHub commits to LP bugs other than in commit
> > description. IMO not a big deal.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > In general these are the points that I think really matter:
> >
> > * Code review : I spend a lot of time reviewing code and patch
> > submissions. I would switch to GitHub for this alone. If it made me
> > spend half as much time reviewing code as I do now that would be a
> > huge savings and would free time for me to do other things.
> >
> > * Speed. I'm so fed up with Bazaar's slowness and I'm sure you are
> > too.
> >
> > * Developer mindshare is in Git, we are potentially missing out on
> > contributions due to our tools (scons, bzr) being unfamiliar.
> >
> > * The tooling in the git community is way better than Bazaar.
> >
> > Another option is to setup a mirror of bzr on GitHub.
>
>
>
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