On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 03:36:45PM -0300, João Vanzuita wrote: > And wanna ask you guys to answer the Jonathan Downland question bellow. > > On 17/04/15 13:06, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >The real question is: what do we gain by hosting such things on github? > >The social stuff, pull requests, etc.? Uch, so I resubscribed to -devel -- it'd be nice to email the admins of the thing you're talking about to, well, ask them. I've been using it to create repos where I need to communicate with an upstream on GitHub (so that it's in the Project's namespace, so it's not locked up under github.com/paultag when I go missing), and I maintain mirrors of repos on git.debian.org (using a VCS sync script I wrote) to let new contributors send me patches. Lowing the barrier to entry, and helping them work with a different workflow (alioth, etc) once they feel comfortable contributing is much less intimidating. So, yes, it's nonfree. Yes, it's controlled by DDs. No, I don't think this should be the Vcs-Git: target. No, I don't think we should endorse GitHub. Yes, we need free tools. Yes, we should contribute to the F/OSS community where upstreams are. I even wrote a GitHub Pull Request -> format-patch series tool, but never deployed it. One day when I have all the time in the world :) Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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