On 12 February 2016 at 08:29, Mihuleac Sergiu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I wanted to know why LibreOffice doesn't uses GitHub to maintain their > source code. I personally wanted to start contributing but after I saw > it wasn't on GitHub i started to think twice. I believe this is a > serious drawback.
Others have already mentioned the independence. More elaborate answer: http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/02/12/the-next-generation-of-code-hosting-platforms "Free Software needs free tools" The oldest/largest meta-projects such as Apache or GNU or KDE have their own infrastructure. The latter uses GitHub just for read-only mirrors; in order to contribute you use the Free infrastructure. The code is a bunch of files so these can be copied but I think you can imagine what happens if one day issue tracking system (such as GitHub) disappears. There's no copy of the system. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
