A reminder that launchpad wasn't open source for almost 2 years after Mixxx started using it. Hell, Stallman built GCC on VAX and Sun because there weren't any free operating systems that did what he wanted yet.
:^) -- @nathandotz github.com/sleepynate | www.sleepynate.com On Monday, December 17, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Neale Pickett wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:47:30 -0500 > nathan dotz <nathan.d...@gmail.com (mailto:nathan.d...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > the maturity of services github provides is well worth the divergence > > from a 100% open-source workflow. > > > > ... > > > github.com/sleepynate | www.sleepynate.com (http://www.sleepynate.com) > > > Just wanted to put those two things closer together :^) > > The maturity of Traktor, similarly, may be well worth... you can guess > the rest. I feel like a FOSS project ought to similarly support FOSS > projects. But I have accounts on both (github and gitosis), and once a > decision is made I won't much care. > > I, too, have been using a git->bzr shim, for what it's worth. One > thing that drives me insane about bazaar is that on my very slow home > Internet connection, setting up the mixxx tree for the first time is > quite fragile. I once had it going in a while loop and I spent two > days trying to pull it down, using every shortcut and "don't download > everything" trick I could find on the Internet. If bzr times out, it > removes all the work it managed to complete: there's no apparent way > to have it resume after this, you must start over. I wound up having to > clone it on a machine that was better connected, and then rsync the > directory tree to do local development. > > Neale ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
