First of all, thanks a lot for tagging/releasing Beancount 2.0, I'm really excited about this (even if it's the same code base than a few days ago, I know, but I can't help it!)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:52:48PM -0400, Martin Blais wrote: > "Attracting more developers" is not an explicit goal of the project, though > "attracting more developers who write very long and thoroughly thought-out > suites of unit tests for very small and contained changes worked and > reworked again from all the findings found from aforementioned laboriously > written unit tests covering most of the cases" is quite useful. Do you > believe moving to github would result in more unit testing? I totally agree that one platform or another does nothing to *actively* encourage developing more unit tests. And I'm certainly not a fan of GitHub --- proprietary platform, forces non-free JavaScript onto users, etc., etc., you know, my "usual FOSS things" :) But FWIW the way I think about this is not in terms of actively encouraging contributions, but rather not *discouraging* it. Say a user has developed a bunch of test suites and want to contribute them. And say that user is like Martin M., fluent with Git/GitHub, but almost never used hg/bitbucket. He might give up sending you the tests at the first attempt of rebasing/rewriting a PR that fails, unless he has additional spare time and motivation. And at that point you would have lost a contribution that you consider valuable. That said, I don't particularly care, Bitbucket is as bad as a platform as GitHub in terms of software freedom, and I'm happily using git-remote-hg locally anyway, so the two alternatives are really the same to me. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . z...@upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20180328075948.GF11151%40upsilon.cc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
