On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Andreas Kloeckner <[email protected]> wrote: > This has been requested a number of times--I must admit that I don't get > it. What does github offer that you don't get from plain git and a > mailing list?
My view, as someone who has used github for personal projects, with private repositories for work, and to make (minor) contributions to other open source projects, is that github doesn't so much allow you to do anything that you couldn't have done with git and a mailing list, but generally lowers the difficulty of doing things (in some cases drastically - pull requests are to patch emails what git branching is to CVS branching, for example ;). I have a hard time imagining a situation where I, personally, would host a git repo myself rather than use github (I think that they've done a good job of mitigating strong reasons not to). Much of the code behind github is closed source, so if you're a purist about that kind of thing, it might not be the best choice. There are clones out there (some full open source), however, the community inertia and the feature lead make those a hard sell, IMHO. Cheers, Eli _______________________________________________ PyOpenCL mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tiker.net/listinfo/pyopencl
