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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 Gi
by 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 agogit is still git - people don't even need a github account to have full functionality.
- icebraining 12y agoHow many Github projects accept git format-patch submissions? There's functionality beyond the basic DVCS commands.
- dsymonds 12y agoIn 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 agoWait 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 agoSee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605321
- lmm 12y agoHaving 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.