BitBucket, of course! I knew I was forgetting one. I think they appear to
have the cleanest, simplest, and easy-looking interface of all the options.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Nathan Ekstrom <[email protected]>wrote:

> http://bitbucket.org/ does the same thing as github except for mercurial.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Bob Waycott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'd love to.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> 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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to