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Re: debian github organization ?



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On 04/18/2015 01:09 PM, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:04:40 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Neil Williams wrote:
>> 
>>> git won the DVCS argument a long time ago. github won the DVCS
>>> UI argument a long time ago - it is clearly the one UI that
>>> the largest number of git contributors actually want to use.
>> 
>> Are there any good DFSG-free desktop UIs for git?
> 
> For desktop UI, I find qgit to be usable. However, that's just for 
> viewing branches, diffs and history - contributions need to come
> via something off desktop and qgit does little to help me when
> reviewing patches submitted by others beyond what I would see
> anyway with a web-based diff frontend or the superb 'meld'. (I
> don't know where I would be without conflict resolution support in
> meld - big *thank you* to the meld maintainers & upstream - I grew
> to like meld when I was on svn, it has become even more important
> and useful with git).
> 
> So I should clarify that, github won the DVCS web UI ... it's 
> contribution support and repository creation / browsing /
> searching support is far better than any of the other tools I have
> to use (command-line, desktop or web). Integration with an issue
> tracker actually works when most alternatives do not, the wiki is
> fast, usable and has a nicer rendering than any other wiki I
> regularly use. I also look at github and sites like it when
> planning how to implement new web UI features in my own free
> software. More important than all that, it's where the users are.
> It's a circular argument, I know, but I use it because that's where
> people expect to find stuff and where people expect to be able to
> contribute.
> 
> TBH I'm far from worried about a web service like github being run
> on non-free software. It's not the sole source for anything I care 
> about, it provides a useful service to me but if it went away, meh,
> it went away - I'd just have to find out where the users went and
> probably follow. It's not that github is the best possible answer,
> it is the best current answer and has a large, interested, user
> base. It's primarily the user base that matters, the UI support is
> very good but secondary to me. Ignoring or snubbing github won't
> affect github or reduce it's usefulness to others - it will just
> cut off a possibly interesting source of new contributors.
> 

So we now just need somehow make every DD (or DM or other packaging
contributor) to package one dependency for Gitlab and then make
gitlab.debian.net infrastructure and everyone is happy I guess.

Cheers,

zlatan
- -- 
Its not the COST, its the VALUE
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