Bob - Good point about site branding. I would like to freshen up the page and maybe even the demo store to be a little more current. Unfortunately, my design-fu is lacking. Are there any talented folks on the list that would like to help out with some redesigned logos and site layout?
-Chris On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Bob Waycott <[email protected]> wrote: > I think anything of the distributed vcs variety will be found to be a > wonderful upgrade from SVN. > I mostly use git these days. Ccoming from SVN, I have plenty of tales to > tell of how my butt has been saved by the likes of git's branch, rebase, > pull, push, stash, revert, and other handy commands (git-merge-octopus, > anyone?). > > Git has a lot of history behind it and a number of handy utilities and > helper apps abound (like GitX for Mac). > > However, I know that hg & bzr are out there, too, and I won't even attempt > to make any disparaging remarks. I've read enough of both to think that > maintaining a project with them would still be a sufficient improvement from > SVN. > > I think the choice of project management is perhaps more important than the > tool that manages the code. So, the big contenders there that I'm aware of > are continuing with Trac (which has a git plugin & hg plugin), or going the > routes of something like github, assembla, or launchpad. > > They all have their strengths, I think. Perhaps there is value in askin how > Satchmo plans to continue with regards to its project image. I think Satchmo > could use a bit of branding work. If Satchmo's code was moved over to a > service like those mentioned above, it could provide an opportunity to break > satchmoproject.com away from being limited by Trac integration and a bit > more freedom to take a stab at defining a brand for Satchmo and redesigning > the project's site to focus on the project itself, docs, and other material > that is relevant. Code can be limited to a download link for a tar or > something, as well as one that points people over to the repo on a hosted > service. > > Either way, +(the answer to life the universe and everything times number > of horns on a unicorn times speed of light in furlongs per fortnight) for > DVCS. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
