> On 19 Feb 2019, at 17:45, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
> <offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just want to add my grateful voices in this thread.
>
> Even as a vocal critic of the (gratuitous?) complexity of Git and the
> dangers in the centralization via GitHub, Iceberg makes easy to use
> modern VCS and get this feeling of momentum.
Yes
When MS bought github we thought that there is no risk because
we can move in no time to other services. I did not gitea but this is a nice
idea.
> I'm starting to port my
> repositoies to a community hosted version of Gitea[1] and I hope to
> contribute into extending Iceberg to support Fossil.
>
> [1] https://gitea.io/
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Offray
>
> On 19/2/19 7:32, Tim Mackinnon wrote:
>> Yes I agree - when there is so much discussion and debate going on, its easy
>> to lose sight of the hard work and determination that went into getting us
>> to this brave new world. I too want to shout a big thank you for the tooling
>> and also the support that goes along with that.
>>
>> I love been able to think a bit more polyglot, and use tools/languages more
>> easily side by side - although of course I want to hold on to what makes
>> Smalltalk special (which is tons of stuff).
>>
>> I particularly love being able to feel like its easier to contribute -
>> updating readme’s and docs is trivial in a web browser now - just correct
>> them and submit a PR. And on the receiving side - GitHub makes it easy to
>> discuss the fix, alter it, or simply approve it. Equally - modern build
>> tools easily detect the change, pull the code and rebuild and package it
>> (and cheap scalable infrastructure).
>>
>> Its also getting easier and easier to submit code fixes too - and the VCS
>> skills you learn doing this are transferable beyond Smalltalk - so its a big
>> win win.
>>
>> So yes guys - thanks for hanging in for us!
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>> On 19 Feb 2019, at 08:50, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is a thank you note about Iceberg.
>>>
>>> I have been moving all my external and internal Pharo code to git/tonel/7
>>> and on multiple occasions I have been pleasantly surprised about the
>>> functionality and performance of Iceberg. Basically, it just works.
>>>
>>> Finally, Pharo code lives in standard open source and commercial
>>> repositories (git, GitHub, Bitbucket, ...), without losing anything.
>>>
>>> I know that it took years to get here and that lots of code and community
>>> battles had to be fought. So thank you, to the whole team, you did a great
>>> job !
>>>
>>> Sven
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sven Van Caekenberghe
>>> Proudly supporting Pharo
>>> http://pharo.org
>>> http://association.pharo.org
>>> http://consortium.pharo.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
