On 2022-11-13 12:40, john wrote:
...I thought it timely to start a discussion about a related trend: The name of
the git repository's primary branches
I don't think 'main' is the right name for gnucash or gnucash-docs because it
does nothing about the confusion factor. Note that the defau
Since Geert brought up our relationship with Github I thought it timely to
start a discussion about a related trend: The name of the git repository's
primary branches. There's an ongoing effort in the software development
community for the last 25-30 years or so to remove the terms master and sl
My number one use of GitHub, and IIRC the reason we mirrored it there in the
first place, is to refer to and reference code when communicating on these
lists, bug reports, and IRC. That's replaceable too by serving the repo
ourselves or moving the mirror back to Sourceforge.
The fear is that Gi
> On Nov 13, 2022, at 6:28 AM, Geert Janssens
> wrote:
>
> How recent then can "more recent" be ? In my mind anything that's in the most
> recent LTS, should be fine in all cases. For anything more recent than that,
> we should consider how hard it would be to self-build the dependency.
>
Hi,
What are the features of github that we use/depend on?
- We don't use github's git repo except as a read-only version -- we COULD
open up code for RO access.
- We don't use github issues; we have our own bugzilla.
- We DO use github pull requests; we could theoretically migrate to gerrit
fo
Some may have heard the rumblings around github semi-recently. The software
conservancy is calling free software projects to seek alternatives. They
motivate this in much
more detail over here:
https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/[1]
In short, they claim github is a proprietary tool that's l
Op zaterdag 29 oktober 2022 18:53:57 CET schreef john:
> What really makes sense? How many users are building for themselves and on
> what?
Here are a few of my thoughts on this topic (I threw away several earlier
attempts because
they became way too long...)
With my developer hat on I prefer t
