Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-06-01 Thread Raphaël Proust
On 1 June 2015 at 02:02, Lee Fallat ircsurfe...@gmail.com wrote: Git (and other CVSs) are inherently decentralized. Don't use a service like Github if you want a decentralized repository. Like someone else was saying, torrenting involves people to seed, and when they don't the torrent dies (in

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-06-01 Thread Raphaël Proust
On 31 May 2015 at 14:09, Ivan Tham ivanthamjun...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/ […] Comments and insults are welcome. Have you heard of IPFS? http://ipfs.io/ Might interest you. Cheers, -- __ Raphaël

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-06-01 Thread hiro
you could switch to hg.

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-06-01 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Ivan Tham ivanthamjun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 05:01:46PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: ...everywhere... that should obviously git.suckless.org there. :-) It is just in case that there are 10,000 downloads per minute, git.suckless.org will

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-06-01 Thread Ivan Tham
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:09:43PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: ...everywhere... that should obviously git.suckless.org there. :-) It is just in case that there are 10,000 downloads per minute, git.suckless.org will be seeding and those other downloader will help in the progress. How by Dennis

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-06-01 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Ivan Tham ivanthamjun...@gmail.com wrote: Be confident for apps that suck less. Drop confident for apps that suck more. More importantly, **The Author Should Suck Less** I don't mean any insults. And if I did it, sorry. I don't see suckless software shipped to

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-06-01 Thread Ivan Tham
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 05:01:46PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: ...everywhere... that should obviously git.suckless.org there. :-) It is just in case that there are 10,000 downloads per minute, git.suckless.org will be seeding and those other downloader will help in the progress. --

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-06-01 Thread Aditya Goturu
I agree. Thats probably why the software sucks less in the first place. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Ivan Tham ivanthamjun...@gmail.com wrote: Be confident for apps that suck less. Drop confident for apps that suck more.

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Aditya Goturu
Sorry, messed up something about plain text. Here is my message: What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad? On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:17

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 31 May 2015 at 17:00, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: ... Also what's wrong with git repos at a central project-related place? It's good thinking by OP, there's just too much traffic to host dwm everywhere if 100,000 people per minue are cloning. Having 100k people cloning per

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Anselm, Quoth Anselm R Garbe on Sun, May 31 2015 16:53 +0200: What has suckless with github in common I wonder? I hope nothing apart from using git. What do you find most sucking about GitHub? I'm curious. Regards, -- Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Aditya Goturu
What are the exact reasons why github is harmful? I use github, but if there is anything wrong that I could not see till now, I would like to know it. Or do you mean the community of github is bad? On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Aditya Goturu aditya3...@gmail.com wrote: What are the exact

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 31 May 2015 21:09:25 +0800 Ivan Tham ivanthamjun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ivan, I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized. I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is better, using gittorrent may let the projects which are inspired by

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 31 May 2015 at 17:53, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe first.lord.of.t...@gmail.com wrote: Quoth Anselm R Garbe on Sun, May 31 2015 16:53 +0200: What has suckless with github in common I wonder? I hope nothing apart from using git. What do you find most sucking about GitHub? I'm curious. Well,

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Lee Fallat
Git (and other CVSs) are inherently decentralized. Don't use a service like Github if you want a decentralized repository. Like someone else was saying, torrenting involves people to seed, and when they don't the torrent dies (in our case, a repository). This isn't what anyone wants...

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com wrote: The good thing about elite projects is, that only a bunch of people will actually clone per day ;) ...which stumps the argument about whether to implement bittorrent for a bunch of clones per day. Bt's decentral design

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Quoth Jack L. Frost on Mon, Jun 01 2015 00:24 +0300: In other words: GitHub favors the quantity rather than the quality. It is lacking a good portion of hygene in its open source handling. So you want it to do quality control? Good design enforces its own quality control. No 'Fork' button

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 31 May 2015 at 23:24, Jack L. Frost f...@fleshless.org wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 08:57:12PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: Well, GitHub is the sourceforge of the tens... so the most sucking aspect about GitHub as of today is its content. Every hipster can host his crapware there. And it

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Teodoro Santoni
I like the idea (git through bittorrent) a lot. Rather not like the implementation in node javascript. My humble opinion for your proposal is neither yes not no: this is a distributed way to git-pull that can be built upon the classic git. So anyone who would mirror a suckless project git into

[dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Ivan Tham
http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/ Hi, I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized. I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is better, using gittorrent may let the projects which are inspired by

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Ivan Tham
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 03:31:42PM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: Rather not like the implementation in node javascript. Yeah, I thought about that too. Implementing it in C. -- _ Do what you like, like what you do. -

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 31 May 2015 at 15:09, Ivan Tham ivanthamjun...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/ Hi, I think that would make the projects in suckless more decentralized. I am just giving and idea but I still think the current system is

Re: [dev] [Idea] Using GitTorrent

2015-05-31 Thread Martti Kühne
... Also what's wrong with git repos at a central project-related place? It's good thinking by OP, there's just too much traffic to host dwm everywhere if 100,000 people per minue are cloning. cheers! mar77i