Using github would mean more contributors, better software and especially helping more people (compare patches/issues/communication on unicorn to any other os project and github and the difference should be apparent), and I think that's what OS is about ... it's not ideal, but it's the best we got.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Grosser <[email protected]> wrote: >> Current state makes it very hard to mange/search/fork/open-issues etc >> especially for newcomers, >> please move the project to github so we can have nice disussions >> forks/prs etc goodness. > > No. Never. Github is proprietary communications tool which requires > users to accept a terms of service and login. That gives power and > influence to a single entity (and a for-profit organization at that). > > Contributing to unicorn is *socially* as easy as contributing to git or > the Linux kernel. There is no need to signup for anything, no need to > ever touch a bloated web browser. > > The reason I contribute to Free Software is because I am against any > sort of lock-in or proprietary features. It absolutely sickens me to > encounter users who seem to be incapable of using git without a > proprietary communications tool.
