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What are the features that make GitHub? What if we used only git on the command line? Which features would we miss? Maybe we could add those features with som

by TekMol 8y ago

What are the features that make GitHub? What if we used only git on the command line? Which features would we miss? Maybe we could add those features with something similar to git, some intelligent scripts?

Boulth 8y ago
PRs and issues. PRs can be distributed using git appraise: https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise
- ptman 8y ago
  And there are several distributed issue trackers, all with various problems: https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/keredson/distributed-issue-tracker https://github.com/keredson/distributed-issue-tracker https://github.com/duplys/git-issues https://github.com/duplys/git-issues
  - chriswarbo 8y ago
    Personally I use http://mrzv.org/software/artemis http://mrzv.org/software/artemis extensively and have no complaints.
    - Boulth 8y ago
      For git or hg? As git support is described as "alpha quality".
      - chriswarbo 8y ago
        For git; I think that "alpha quality" warning is due to the git support being added by a contributor and the author not actually using git themselves.
        Boulth 8y ago
        Cool, thanks for the info, definitely worth checking out.
- euyyn 8y ago
  Also each user's "home page" of notifications. When I worked exclusively on open-source projects, it became my daily "task list". It was very efficient to have it all in that UI.
  - Boulth 8y ago
    I agree, notifications page is great, I also use it daily. Another thing is profile page. Maybe they could be solved in a federated way like Mastodon?
confounded 8y ago
The main thing is a place to search, to scan a README without downloading anything, and (even if a little facile) GitHub Stars are a great way to get an rough idea of the size of the user-base.
Freak_NL 8y ago
> Which features would we miss? There are the incidental contributors who do not necessarily have any affinity with git. For example, I've written a plugin for JOSM (OpenStreetMap editor), and a plugin for Inkscape. Both are hosted on GitHub, and any user willing to report a bug can do so there (and they do) without having to learn developer tools.
jcelerier 8y ago
> What are the features that make GitHub? for me it's the random people browsing github by tags and opening issues on my project.

by TekMol 8y ago

Boulth 8y ago

PRs and issues. PRs can be distributed using git appraise: https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise

ptman 8y ago
And there are several distributed issue trackers, all with various problems: https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/keredson/distributed-issue-tracker https://github.com/keredson/distributed-issue-tracker https://github.com/duplys/git-issues https://github.com/duplys/git-issues
- chriswarbo 8y ago
  Personally I use http://mrzv.org/software/artemis http://mrzv.org/software/artemis extensively and have no complaints.
  - Boulth 8y ago
    For git or hg? As git support is described as "alpha quality".
    - chriswarbo 8y ago
      For git; I think that "alpha quality" warning is due to the git support being added by a contributor and the author not actually using git themselves.
      - Boulth 8y ago
        Cool, thanks for the info, definitely worth checking out.
euyyn 8y ago
Also each user's "home page" of notifications. When I worked exclusively on open-source projects, it became my daily "task list". It was very efficient to have it all in that UI.
- Boulth 8y ago
  I agree, notifications page is great, I also use it daily. Another thing is profile page. Maybe they could be solved in a federated way like Mastodon?

confounded 8y ago

The main thing is a place to search, to scan a README without downloading anything, and (even if a little facile) GitHub Stars are a great way to get an rough idea of the size of the user-base.

Freak_NL 8y ago

> Which features would we miss? There are the incidental contributors who do not necessarily have any affinity with git. For example, I've written a plugin for JOSM (OpenStreetMap editor), and a plugin for Inkscape. Both are hosted on GitHub, and any user willing to report a bug can do so there (and they do) without having to learn developer tools.

jcelerier 8y ago

> What are the features that make GitHub? for me it's the random people browsing github by tags and opening issues on my project.