Re: Mailing lists, sites, ...

2015-01-18 Thread Branko Čibej
On 18.01.2015 18:10, Joseph Schaefer wrote: > After all git is born out of dissatisfaction with svn, but Linus wrote the > tool instead of simply publicly whinging about his hatred for svn. You mean, "as well as," not "instead of." :) -- Brane

Re: Mailing lists, sites, ...

2015-01-18 Thread Joseph Schaefer
I've seen this discussion a hundred times or so at Apache, whether it's forums issue trackers or version control. The story is always the same: a handful of software artisans want full uncompromising control over their toolchain. Half the time as is true here what they want is already function

Re: Mailing lists, sites, ...

2015-01-18 Thread David Nalley
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:19 AM, jan i wrote: > On 18 January 2015 at 16:48, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < > ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> There are many reasons why the ASF requires projects to use its own >> servers for some items. For example, we couldn't use GitHub until we had >> b

Re: Mailing lists, sites, ...

2015-01-18 Thread jan i
On 18 January 2015 at 16:48, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > There are many reasons why the ASF requires projects to use its own > servers for some items. For example, we couldn't use GitHub until we had > built a system that would provide adequate traceability o

RE: Mailing lists, sites, ...

2015-01-18 Thread Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)
There are many reasons why the ASF requires projects to use its own servers for some items. For example, we couldn't use GitHub until we had built a system that would provide adequate traceability of contributions. Failure to do that would have meant it was no longer possible to provide the leg