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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml Forge and Github

On 30 Sep 2013, at 11:44, Paolo Donadeo <p.donadeo@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>=
 wrote:
>> But I'm curious: how did other projects deal with this situation?
>=20
> I decided to host my project on the Forge, because I like the idea of
> a community around a site/domain. So the home page is on the forge,
> news and official downloads are there.
>=20
> But I also value the easy to use of GitHub, so the "working" repo is
> on GitHub, and I also use the issue tracker.

Note that these aren't mutually exclusive. In the Real World OCaml
commenting system, we "hid" the GitHub backend from the user via some
simple Javascript, and the same could potentially be done for the Forge.

I'm afraid I have no idea how hackable the Forge software is, though...

-anil