github

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins
<jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27 2014, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
>> To be honest, I am slightly concerned by the popularity of
>> github. Despite being a hosting site primarily for open source, it *is*
>> a proprietary platform. Source code hosting is plain git, but AFAIK all
>> the rest (review process, issue tracking, and so on) is pretty much at
>> the whim and mercy of the company running it. They make a change, you
>> adapt. If you don't want to adapt, it's not easy to switch over to
>> another service provider either if you've built your process around
>> github.
>>
>> So even if the features of github amazed me (they don't), I would have
>> pretty strong reservations about relying on them.
>
> There seems to have been a lot of discussion on the list recently about
> github.  I just want to express my very strong agreement with Jani's
> sentiment above.  A lot of us in the notmuch community moved to notmuch
> because we didn't want our email controlled by a single service provider
> (e.g. gmail).  I don't want our development cycle controlled by github
> (or any other proprietary SCM) for many of the same reasons.

How would our development cycle be controlled by GitHub?

The whole point of a distributed VCS is that there isn't a single
central repository you rely on.

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Felipe Contreras