Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> writes: >>> This is not a good idea: http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html >> >> MUCH seconded. Thanks for sharing the link! > > I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike, > say Bitkeeper, you are free to make git clones anywhere, entirely with > open source software, and are in no way locked down to using github. > > Except maybe features like the issue tracking, which may not be really > appropriate for Debian packages anyway. Debian has its own BTS that > should be used.
Github issue tracking is very bare-bones, and they provide a convenient API that can be used to extract all information from it (or add new info); moving a project from github to a new service wouldn't be a huge task (if the new service provides equivalent functionality). Moreover, these days it's not uncommon to maintain a project on multiple sites simultaneously... So the amount of "lockin" with github seems fairly minimal. [Mako-hill's paper is well-intended, but seems a little dated in its assumptions.] -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipffa834....@catnip.gol.com
