fwiw with Drupal we have a central repository for the core and contributed projects hosted on Drupal.org. There are also sandbox projects (which can be either experimental new projects or forks), and these are also centrally hosted.
This doesn't stop people using github, but it massively increased commit activity on Drupal.org after the switch from cvs (when a lot of people had moved active development to github due to not liking cvs, and definitely some people have come back since). Nathaniel On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Johannes Schlüter wrote: > >> Actually the real question here is WHY create a fork on github at all? The >>> copy >>> > you are working on LOCALLY is the fork that you are developing on? >>> Much of the >>> > stuff on github and the other DVCS server sites is redundant? You only >>> need to >>> > publish your local changes to other developers who are working with >>> you not to >>> > the whole world? >>> >> since i can publish an experimental feature, get it >> reviewed/tested/improved before pushing it to the main tree. >> >> Mind that "other developers who are working with you" is potentially >> everybody on this list;-) >> > > But that is the point ... if everybody has their own published > 'experimental feature' repos, syncing those bits we are playing with looks > like a nightmare? Surly the point of DVCS is we share via some central pot, > and these experimental branches exist there? Having to keep track of who's > bits you are playing with is the messy bit :( And it's that which has caused > problems with other projects, where 'extensions' have grown in secondary > repos ... and become the official extension. That is what I think people are > just trying to flag up. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - > http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=**contact<http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact> > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - > http://www.firebirdsql.org/**index.php<http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php> > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
