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I know there are a lot of code review tools, but with GITHUB and all the tools they make available, I wonder why the other code-review tools are still being dev

I know there are a lot of code review tools, but with GITHUB and all the tools they make available, I wonder why the other code-review tools are still being developed/maintained.

skittleson 9y ago
I wonder that too. Even competing code review tools are very similar.
not_kurt_godel 9y ago
> GITHUB Off-topic, but I'm genuinely curious why you chose this capitalization?
- dingo_bat 9y ago
  My wife often types complete messages in caps. I asked her why she was shouting, and she told me she doesn't consider it shouting at all. To her there's no difference between typing in small letters and all caps.
- majewsky 9y ago
  I see this fairly often that somehow a group of users collectively decides that a certain name has to be typed in all-caps. Whenever someone asks me a question about SWIFT, I tell them I have no idea about fintech, but I can instead answer any questions they have about Swift. But it's an uphill battle. (OpenStack Swift, that is, not Apple Swift. And not Suzuki Swift either.)
  - _asummers 9y ago
    My favorite is when people capitalize LISP. It's not 1958 anymore, we can just say Lisp now.
- alphaIuGN59 9y ago
  No reason really.. Probably unconciouslly highlighted GITHUB :)
TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
Other tools are developed and maintained to stimulate competition and avoid vendor lock-in. Monocultures are dangerous. One example of a use-case where GitHub falls short is offline support: you can't take the issue tracker and wiki with you. There are alternative tools such as fossil [0] which have built-in bug tracking and wiki, which is an attractive feature for some people. [0] https://fossil-scm.org/ https://fossil-scm.org/
- dtech 9y ago
  I think you're right about the issue tracker, but the wiki is just another git repo [1] that you can checkout, commit and push. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pages-locally/ https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pag...
  - TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
    Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware this feature was available on GitHub. I like fossil because it's all built-in and can be wrapped up in a single file. But it's always great to have more choices available.
  - alphaIuGN59 9y ago
    Yeah.. this is one thing I recently discovered. I use github for my personal projects, and was going to start using the issue tracker to keep track of the bugs. But then I realized that if I do that if I do start tracking bugs on github, I will pretty much be tied to github. Hopefully gitlab or bitbucket comes up with a solution which enables the owners of the repos to move bugs/issue tracking, which will force github to enable this feature as well.
- shurcooL 9y ago
  You can actually access a mirror of Go’s issue tracker (hosted on GitHub) offline by using a tool [0]. Of course, a lot of code was written to make it possible, and it’s a read-only view. [0] https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/build/maintner/cmd/maintserve https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/build/maintner/cmd/maintserve

I know there are a lot of code review tools, but with GITHUB and all the tools they make available, I wonder why the other code-review tools are still being developed/maintained.

skittleson 9y ago

I wonder that too. Even competing code review tools are very similar.

not_kurt_godel 9y ago

> GITHUB Off-topic, but I'm genuinely curious why you chose this capitalization?

dingo_bat 9y ago
My wife often types complete messages in caps. I asked her why she was shouting, and she told me she doesn't consider it shouting at all. To her there's no difference between typing in small letters and all caps.
majewsky 9y ago
I see this fairly often that somehow a group of users collectively decides that a certain name has to be typed in all-caps. Whenever someone asks me a question about SWIFT, I tell them I have no idea about fintech, but I can instead answer any questions they have about Swift. But it's an uphill battle. (OpenStack Swift, that is, not Apple Swift. And not Suzuki Swift either.)
- _asummers 9y ago
  My favorite is when people capitalize LISP. It's not 1958 anymore, we can just say Lisp now.
alphaIuGN59 9y ago
No reason really.. Probably unconciouslly highlighted GITHUB :)

TheAceOfHearts 9y ago

Other tools are developed and maintained to stimulate competition and avoid vendor lock-in. Monocultures are dangerous. One example of a use-case where GitHub falls short is offline support: you can't take the issue tracker and wiki with you. There are alternative tools such as fossil [0] which have built-in bug tracking and wiki, which is an attractive feature for some people. [0] https://fossil-scm.org/ https://fossil-scm.org/

dtech 9y ago
I think you're right about the issue tracker, but the wiki is just another git repo [1] that you can checkout, commit and push. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pages-locally/ https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pag...
- TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
  Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware this feature was available on GitHub. I like fossil because it's all built-in and can be wrapped up in a single file. But it's always great to have more choices available.
- alphaIuGN59 9y ago
  Yeah.. this is one thing I recently discovered. I use github for my personal projects, and was going to start using the issue tracker to keep track of the bugs. But then I realized that if I do that if I do start tracking bugs on github, I will pretty much be tied to github. Hopefully gitlab or bitbucket comes up with a solution which enables the owners of the repos to move bugs/issue tracking, which will force github to enable this feature as well.
shurcooL 9y ago
You can actually access a mirror of Go’s issue tracker (hosted on GitHub) offline by using a tool [0]. Of course, a lot of code was written to make it possible, and it’s a read-only view. [0] https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/build/maintner/cmd/maintserve https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/build/maintner/cmd/maintserve