On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 10:21:41 AM UTC-5, Bruno Sutic wrote: > I'm curious, when a switch is made, will Github's "pull request" feature be > used? Or will code contributions still be done with patches via mailing list? > > I'd guess a move to "pull request" workflow will be done since it's so > effortless on github, but maybe I'm jumping the gun here.
I'd like to take this a step further: If pull requests will NOT be used, then does GitHub offer anything at all that we cannot get elsewhere? I.e. does it give any benefits beyond the fact that a lot of people are using Git? If Bram starts using pull requests, sure GitHub makes sense because a lot of people already have accounts there. But if not...BitBucket supports Git, Kiln supports Git and also adds the grouping of multiple repositories into one project, and there may be others. I think it would be nice to have an "official" Mercurial mirror, which isn't possible at GitHub. And I think an official mirror will be harder to maintain if we need to use multiple sites for it, especially if each site has a separate bug tracker. By the way, I originally was going to suggest Kiln because of their "Kiln Harmony" feature which allowed using either Mercurial or Git on the *same repository*, but apparently they have quietly disabled that feature for new accounts (according to their support team in an email I sent asking about it when I couldn't find the feature). No word on whether the feature may be coming back, which is a shame, since it could solve the debate rather quickly by not needing to choose at all. -- -- 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.
