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It is great to see so many projects moving to git and GitHub in particular. GitHub is incredibly helpful for quickly taking a look at a project and figuring out

It is great to see so many projects moving to git and GitHub in particular. GitHub is incredibly helpful for quickly taking a look at a project and figuring out what areas of a project are still evolving and being actively developed.

negated 12y ago
You could also say that everyone moving to GitHub is leading to a dangerous centralized monoculture that evaluates software quality based on how well it fits GitHub's conventions.
- andrewchambers 12y ago
  git is still git - people don't even need a github account to have full functionality.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    How many Github projects accept git format-patch submissions? There's functionality beyond the basic DVCS commands.
    - dsymonds 12y ago
      In Go's case, we will be using Gerrit (elsewhere) for accepting submissions. GitHub will only be used as a source code mirror, wiki and issue tracker.
      - NateDad 12y ago
        Wait wait wait... no pull requests? There's no way you could just hook up PR's to gerrit? Using github just as a mirror seems to defeat the entire purpose of github, which is to encourage more community members to contribute.
- yohanatan 12y ago
  See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605321
- lmm 12y ago
  Having migrated projects from GitHub to/from Bitbucket and internal git servers - which is a 10 minute job at most - I'm not terribly worried about this.
thejosh 12y ago
Moving to git is great, moving to github can be terrible for some projects that are more collaborative, as if you want to change someones PR you cannot..
- reledi 12y ago
  You can makes changes to a PR that you didn't open. If you want to change the title, edit/delete comments, close the PR, assign a person or labels then you'll need the proper permissions. If you want to make changes to the code you'll need to have push access to the same repo (which is usually the case if you're on the same team because then you don't need to use forks). Otherwise you can always amend the commit(s) before merging them into master.
  - andreabedini 12y ago
    Better still you can fork the PR and open a PR to the PR :)
    - codygman 12y ago
      What if the repo is /me/myproject and you are trying to fork /contributor/myproject? What will your fork be named?
- zwily 12y ago
  They're using Gerrit for code review, where you can modify patches submitted by other people.

negated 12y ago

You could also say that everyone moving to GitHub is leading to a dangerous centralized monoculture that evaluates software quality based on how well it fits GitHub's conventions.

andrewchambers 12y ago
git is still git - people don't even need a github account to have full functionality.
- icebraining 12y ago
  How many Github projects accept git format-patch submissions? There's functionality beyond the basic DVCS commands.
  - dsymonds 12y ago
    In Go's case, we will be using Gerrit (elsewhere) for accepting submissions. GitHub will only be used as a source code mirror, wiki and issue tracker.
    - NateDad 12y ago
      Wait wait wait... no pull requests? There's no way you could just hook up PR's to gerrit? Using github just as a mirror seems to defeat the entire purpose of github, which is to encourage more community members to contribute.
yohanatan 12y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605321
lmm 12y ago
Having migrated projects from GitHub to/from Bitbucket and internal git servers - which is a 10 minute job at most - I'm not terribly worried about this.

thejosh 12y ago

Moving to git is great, moving to github can be terrible for some projects that are more collaborative, as if you want to change someones PR you cannot..

reledi 12y ago
You can makes changes to a PR that you didn't open. If you want to change the title, edit/delete comments, close the PR, assign a person or labels then you'll need the proper permissions. If you want to make changes to the code you'll need to have push access to the same repo (which is usually the case if you're on the same team because then you don't need to use forks). Otherwise you can always amend the commit(s) before merging them into master.
- andreabedini 12y ago
  Better still you can fork the PR and open a PR to the PR :)
  - codygman 12y ago
    What if the repo is /me/myproject and you are trying to fork /contributor/myproject? What will your fork be named?
zwily 12y ago
They're using Gerrit for code review, where you can modify patches submitted by other people.