Switch to github

[Carlo Wood]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 19:54:37 +0200
Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:03:13 +0200
> Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:30:21PM +0800, "jianhuizhao329 at gmail.com"
> > <jianhuizhao.329 at gmail.com> wrote:  
> > > It is recommended to switch from cvs to github.    
> > 
> > By whom? The evaluation of the FSF for example gave github the worst
> > rating, an F.
> > 
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
> >   
> 
> He probably meant meant git (although then using github.com is a
> logical choice).
> 
> One of the reasons that switching to git makes sense is that
> CVS is simply outdated. I switched all my projects to git years
> ago already. The reason that it is outdated is mostly because
> of technical differences that boil down to the fact that git
> allows easy cooperation between (many) developers. The workflow
> is well fleshed out and supported.
> 
> CVS still does the job, but it is for example way harder to
> work on a project with more than one maintainer; mailing patches
> is hardly something of this time.
> 
> Even if you think "I don't WANT other people to mess with
> my project; I want to be in full control as the only God-developer"
> then still that is not really reason to fear git: it will STILL
> be easier for you to maintain libev and review patch proposals,
> and you can still reject everything. At most the chance that
> someone forks you, write a few awesome improves that you refuse
> to merge and people start using their close instead of yours,
> is slightly larger; because through github it is easier to find
> people who cloned projects - and their patches - even if the
> mother project didn't accept their pull requests. That would maybe
> be bad for you, but it certainly isn't bad for the community ;)
> A little bit of competition is healthy (ie, in the above scenario
> you'd probably decide to take the time to look at those awesome
> new improvements and merge them into your repository, instead of
> losing your client base).
> 
> Regards,
> 

Sigh typos...

s/meant meant/meant/
s/the fact//
a* reason
writes* a few awesome improvements*
start using their clone*

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>