Hi, GitHub employee here. I'm not here to talk anyone into using git over anything else, but to provide a bit of perspective as both long-time open source maintainer[1] and huge Vim fan[2].
On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 4:54:03 AM UTC-7, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Despite all the popularity of github, it doesn't seem to be able to do > something as simple as sending a user a message. Do I need to fork a > repostitory and send a pull request just to get someone's attention? It's easy to get attention of any GitHub user by @-mentioning their name in any issue thread, pull request review conversation, commit message or commit comment. I think a switch to a host such as GitHub or any alternative is a question of much more than just picking a version control systems. I agree with others on this thread that both git and hg are perfectly viable solutions, each in its own way. But project management and maintenance is much more than doing operations on the command-line. My suggestion is that the decision about new project home for Vim should fall on Bram and few other people that are most heavily involved in maintaining the project (if there are any), based on which tool they want to look at day-to-day when they are triaging issues and reviewing code contributions & their CI status. In my experience, these are sometimes even more time-consuming tasks than actually writing the code. Therefore, feel and feature set of an online code collaboration tool is important regardless of the particular VCS that sits below it. Our support staff spent weeks helping make the transition of the Go project to GitHub[3] flawless and with minimum disruption to their flow. If you do decide to move to GitHub, give us a heads-up and we can tweak our migration tools to your needs. Thanks! [1]: https://github.com/mislav [2]: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/12/vim-revisited/ [3]: https://github.com/golang/go -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
