❦ 20 avril 2015 00:18 +1000, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> :
> Likewise, as an external party Alice can collaborate via ‘git
> send-email’ or ‘git request-pull’ on an equal footing with any other
> repo (including GitHub repos). But Bob, having chosen GitHub's
> proprietary pull requests as an essential part of his workflow, has
> thereby chosen to silo his repo such that Alice can't collaborate as a
> peer from outside GitHub.
Well, Bob may be open to receive contributions by email as well. It is
his choice and hardly relevant with the proprietary nature of GitHub. If
Bob chosed its own Gerrit installation, Alice would need to create an
account on this Gerrit system. Maybe Alice would prefer to create
accounts on random small systems or maybe Alice don't like to create
accounts at all.
Many people having a GitHub account, it is easier to contribute to a
project hosted on GitHub. As an open source project, you need to choose
between using only an open infrastructure and missing a few contributors
not willing to create a specific account on this open infrastructure or
choose something like GitHub.
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Let the machine do the dirty work.
- The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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