Martin hi, Sorry for bringing it up again :) Thank you for all the work you did, I love beancount and will keep using it not matter what version control systems you will be using.
Please consider one point, it's not only about attracting developers, it's also about discoverability for users too. When i was looking for plain text accounting tool first thing i did i went on github and searched for accounting. Ledger and hleadger came up, did more reading around and chose ledger. I ignored beancount totally cause i assumed that any worthy tool should have at least some community behind it. So i've chose ledger and was using it for 1 months. Than somehow i came to reading about beancount, found this google group and realized that beacount have community (in fact bigger than hledger and more active than ledger), etc. I tried it. loved it and switched to it. So having project on github could've saved me 1 months :) and not having to learn new system again. (though leadger and beancount are similar, they still differ quite a lot for a newbie) To summarize: discoverability and users are important for a project development too. It's not only developers. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 10:53:11 PM UTC-4, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Zhuoyun Wei <wzy...@wzyboy.org > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> 2018-03-27 20:52:48 Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca <javascript:>>: >> > That's unfair. The fact that you're unfamiliar with it doesn't mean >> it's a pain. >> > Perhaps it's a pain for you now, but imagine the pains of a Mercurial >> user wrangling some of the crazy problems which >> > occur frequently with Git (much worse). >> > >> > I'm not going to once again go over the technical reasons for this, but >> Mercurial is in many ways a success over Git, >> > which is why some of the larger integrations have chosen it over Git >> (e.g. look at what Facebook has done, and I'm >> > aware of other such large integrations and have discussed the details >> with some of the developers carrying them out at >> > a conference, they're convincing technical reasons). Don't let your OSS >> perspective skew your vision. Github might be >> > more popular, but so was VHS. >> >> I am not trying to start a flame war, but I would like to point out that >> choosing a popular tool/platform attracts more developers. >> > > "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? > > -- 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/4d0d7439-73be-4359-9f9d-ab1cc6e08c38%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
