Giovanni Biscuolo <g...@xelera.eu> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Hi Liliana, > > Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prik...@gmail.com> writes: > > [...] > >> For example, whenever people say that "forges would improve stuff", my >> reply is (modulo phrasing) "yes, for the people who are already used to >> forges". > > I just want to point out that actually Guix _do_have_ a forge. the > software is Savane and it's hosted on savannah.gnu.org: > https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix > > This is just to remind everyone that there are very different forges out > there, and: > > All forges suck, _no one_ sucks less To quote the elementary HIG: "Design is not just, like, your opinion, man" https://docs.elementary.io/hig/design-philosophy#design-is-not-just-like-your-opinion-man Just because two alternatives are both imperfect does not mean they are equally bad. Statistically speaking, 10 forges having the same "suckiness" score has an infinitesimal chance. A more meaningful argument would be that the alternatives have different goals, but even that's shaky, since most of their goals are shared. If it takes me 30 minutes to find a commit in a repo on one forge and 5 minutes on another, then one forge is *objectively* worse in *that aspect*. I don't think repeating that no forge sucks less advances the conversation towards any solution other than keeping the status quo, which can't really be called a solution.
