On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27 2014, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote: >> To be honest, I am slightly concerned by the popularity of >> github. Despite being a hosting site primarily for open source, it *is* >> a proprietary platform. Source code hosting is plain git, but AFAIK all >> the rest (review process, issue tracking, and so on) is pretty much at >> the whim and mercy of the company running it. They make a change, you >> adapt. If you don't want to adapt, it's not easy to switch over to >> another service provider either if you've built your process around >> github. >> >> So even if the features of github amazed me (they don't), I would have >> pretty strong reservations about relying on them. > > There seems to have been a lot of discussion on the list recently about > github. I just want to express my very strong agreement with Jani's > sentiment above. A lot of us in the notmuch community moved to notmuch > because we didn't want our email controlled by a single service provider > (e.g. gmail). I don't want our development cycle controlled by github > (or any other proprietary SCM) for many of the same reasons.
How would our development cycle be controlled by GitHub? The whole point of a distributed VCS is that there isn't a single central repository you rely on. -- Felipe Contreras
