> On 02/20/2017 09:19 AM, Jakob Eriksson wrote: > > I would love for the public repo to be on github!
I would love for it to be on some kind of public git repo too. I'm mostly indifferent whether it's github/bitbucket/sourceforge/whatever, but would just love to be able to pull/branch/rebase for quick experimenting with the leading-edge source. More importantly in regard to this thread, a lot of Debian packaging tools and methodologies (and probably in other distros) are increasingly leveraging git to streamline the packaging process (e.g. http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/man.gbp.html and https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html#combine), making it easier for packagers (and less excuse for lag-time or packaging bugs) when using an existing git-upstream, so a public git repo would help keep picolisp more up-to-date in the distros. Also, I think public git would make the "downloading -> exploring -> contributing-patches" pipeline a lot faster and easier for contributing to picolisp itself (even if the changes are still sent to the mailing-list, at least they could be commit-ready patches generated with git-format-patch, allowing merging or cherry-picking them to be trivially easy and fast). On 20 February 2017 at 20:46, Christopher Howard <christop...@alaskasi.com> wrote: > I'm sure my opinion has very little weight around here, but since other > people are discussing it I want to put in a plug for Savannah (Non-GNU): > > https://savannah.nongnu.org/ > > If you aren't willing to run the proprietary JavaScript on Github it > becomes a real pain to work with. (Gets an F rating from FSF > <https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.html>.) > Includes Subversion and Git support. ..when thinking of free/libre/open github alternatives, and particularly if the approval-wait of savannah is annoying, there is also one of: A) 1] self-host by running (free/open) gitlab - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce 2] use their free repo-hosting service at - https://gitlab.com B) self-host by running (free/open) gogs - https://github.com/gogits/gogs C) self-host with one of the more minimal solutions like (free/open) gitweb, etc I haven't looked at how strictly FSF-friendly gitlab.com is (librejs, etc), but for sure it's a big improvement on github if you care about privacy/control/librejs issues. gogs is interesting because it is very lightweight, portable, and easy-maintenance (can even be hosted on a raspberry pi or nas device), whereas gitlab is bigger and seems equivalent to github in terms of bells-and-whistles (CI integration, etc). -- Rowan Thorpe ---- "A riot is the language of the unheard." - Dr. Martin Luther King "There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem." - Harold Stephens "Ignorance requires no apologies when it presents questions rather than assertions." - Michael Sierchio (OpenSSL mailing list) "What we need more than an end to wars is an end to the beginning of all wars." - Franklin Roosevelt -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
