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>>” SourceHut, only has six contributors with more than one commit” And wasn’t antirez practically the only developer of Redis for years as well. Why does the
by tiffanyh 7y ago
>>” SourceHut, only has six contributors with more than one commit”
And wasn’t antirez practically the only developer of Redis for years as well.
Why does the number of developers of a piece of software indicate it’s better?
Having a small development teams has worked for numerous successful projects. Take SQLite as another example.
So why the downvote?
- mmm_grayons 7y agoNot the guy you asked, but I didn't downmod your comments. However, I don't think moving would make sense right now for big projects. Here's why: 1. Sourcehut is still pretty new; people aren't as familiar with its interface and workflow (which is intentionally different from the github PR-based one). Better or worse aside, this would create an additional barrier to contributions. 3. Sourcehut is still in alpha as of writing this comment; though it's stable, stuff might change. This is no ding on the site, which is actually really good (I greatly prefer the lightweight UI to github), but projects like redis have different considerations than a personal hobby project. 2. It takes time and effort to move a project to different hosting, and from my experience, this grows in a greater-than-linear fashion as the size of the project increases. Any project must therefore ask itself if there is a compelling reason to expend that time on that goal, some benefit to developers or to users.