From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D700A7EE99 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:03:34 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of rich@annexia.org) identity=pra; client-ip=80.68.91.176; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rich@annexia.org"; x-sender="rich@annexia.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of rich@annexia.org designates 80.68.91.176 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=80.68.91.176; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rich@annexia.org"; x-sender="rich@annexia.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@furbychan.cocan.org) identity=helo; client-ip=80.68.91.176; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rich@annexia.org"; x-sender="postmaster@furbychan.cocan.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgsFAJLwtlJQRFuw/2dsb2JhbABYgws4gwK3EoESFnSCJQEBAQMBOj8FCwsYCRMSDwUoIYgPDAEIynEXhieIfgeDI4ETBJgWgTGLLYU3gy08 X-IPAS-Result: AgsFAJLwtlJQRFuw/2dsb2JhbABYgws4gwK3EoESFnSCJQEBAQMBOj8FCwsYCRMSDwUoIYgPDAEIynEXhieIfgeDI4ETBJgWgTGLLYU3gy08 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,531,1384297200"; d="scan'208";a="50076071" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 22 Dec 2013 15:03:34 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vujcy-0002Nk-UR; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:03:32 +0000 Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:03:32 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" To: Gabriel Scherer Cc: Yotam Barnoy , Ocaml Mailing List Message-ID: <20131222140332.GA8080@annexia.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Moving ocaml to github (as well) On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:00:14AM +0100, Gabriel Scherer wrote: > I think "which control version software to use" should be strictly the > choice of the developers. I've talked repeatedly with some of the major > OCaml developers about that, and my impression is that, so far, they are > happy to use SVN and see no major reason to change. I respect this choice > and don't believe we should put any pressure on their choice of everyday > tools. git is so superior to svn in every respect that I wish the OCaml developers would use it. But as you say it is their choice, and we have git mirrors. > I hear the argument that putting a project on github automagically > increases the amount of external contributions. This might be true, but has > yet to be demonstrated. I can add some (negative) anec-data: (1) Putting a project on github increases the number of people submitting bug reports and pull requests using github's proprietary interface. This is annoying because you need some way to tell them not to do this, and to deal with people who do it anyway. (libguestfs -- hosted on github -- has an all-caps notice on the front page: http://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs) (2) It's easy to run your own git repository with a web interface. There is nothing magical that github provides here except free bandwidth and someone who looks after security errata. > The major entry-point for OCaml development > discussion (besides this list) is the bugtracker: > http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/ Having said that, I truly hate mantis with a passion ... Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat