Re: [xquery-talk] [xml-dev] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 14:23 +, David Lee wrote: > Basically SourceForge has been bought [...] > Suggestions welcome ... The near-universal answer is "github". > Do I need (want to?) learn "git" ? and move to github ? Probably. It seems to be winning out as the replacement. The GIMP image

[xquery-talk] making of Lux

2013-11-25 Thread Michael Sokolov
It occurred to me folks on this list might be interested in an article I wrote a couple of weeks ago, but may not have seen it. http://blog.safariflow.com/2013/11/11/the-making-of-lux-xml-query-for-lucene/ Aside from some technical details, it talks a little more broadly about XML's relevance

Re: [xquery-talk] [xml-dev] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread James Fuller
I like github, but its git (or generically distributed source control) that I like articles like this http://thehackernews.com/2013/11/github-accounts-compromised-in-massive.html have me researching the path Eric van der Vlist has charted http://eric.van-der

Re: [xquery-talk] [xml-dev] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread James Fuller
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, John Snelson wrote: > Github's pretty good - I used this to become familiar with Git (your life > will get better ;-)): > > http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf > > The main issue I have is it's lack of release management support. And yes, > unlike

Re: [xquery-talk] [xml-dev] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread Adam Retter
Actually I like that GitHub just expects 'tags' and 'milestones' because this is all that you need to integrate with your release management tools. I think here the 'less if more' approach is brilliant. We use several systems together for our release management but ultimately its all Maven at the r

Re: [xquery-talk] [xml-dev] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread John Snelson
Github's pretty good - I used this to become familiar with Git (your life will get better ;-)): http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf The main issue I have is it's lack of release management support. And yes, unlike HTML 5 I do believe having release checkpoints benefits users

Re: [xquery-talk] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread Adam Retter
Hi David, I have been upset by the decline of SourceForge for several years now. Even before this installer junk, it seemed to me that each consecutive website re-design that they forced on us was worse and slower than the previous. The final straw for me was that their new Subversion web browser

Re: [xquery-talk] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread Joe Wicentowski
+1 for Github. It's definitely got a learning curve, but there are lots of resources out there for folks coming from an SVN world. But ultimately whatever works best for you. Just saw Mike's response and wanted to add that Github does allow you to package up releases for easy download: https://g

Re: [xquery-talk] [xml-dev] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread Michael Sokolov
On 11/25/2013 09:23 AM, David Lee wrote: I am so annoyed by this thread and the associated links which seem to clear the FUD http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/ ... Do I need (want to?) learn "git" ? and move to github ? My "Git" experience so far

[xquery-talk] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

2013-11-25 Thread David Lee
I am so annoyed by this thread and the associated links which seem to clear the FUD http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/ Basically SourceForge has been bought by Dice and now is encouraging users to use their Malware infected (well "Encouraged Additiona