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9 years ago When? and why github? a for profit non free resource that might disappear any
day just like the flakes here at googlecode are going to disappear? I was and
am profoundly disappointed that googlecode just turns itself off because they
don't have the attention span to run the resource they built to help pay back
the free software community, but I guess google is so big now that they don't
feel any need to repay such debts, even though their entire system is built on
foss.
With that said, inxi probably will move to github merely because it's the
'popular choice', though it's not decided yet. Not that it matters where inxi
source repos are hosted, it's not like it has a lot of source code files, so
anyone who wants to work on it who can't figure out how to download a file
probably shouldn't be working on it in the first place, given it's complexity
internally.
github was totally out of the question before because it didn't handle svn, but
they now apparently have an svn shiv working, so it's now thinkable. git is
totally and completely incompatible with my coding work flow, but if I can
interact with it using svn I don't care that much.
The bottom line is that in the real world, actually moving stuff like this
project takes at least one (unpaid and totally wasted) day, sometimes 2,
depends on what issues you hit, for example, I'm told the wiki import isn't
working reliably, and I doubt the issues will transfer.
I actually don't want to have inxi use a second party source at all for stuff
like wiki and issues because now that googlecode has flaked out on its implicit
obligation to be a reliable code repo hoster, I certainly do not trust a small
company with probably a very weak business model like github to be any more
reliable, even if it happens to be today's fad, just like sourceforge was the
fad before googlecode, but people don't have very good memories and believe
that the present is fundamentally different from the past. I don't share this
belief, I tend to believe that trends continue, so I fully expect github to
become as foul as sourceforge has become, or as flaky as googlecode in terms of
just stopping, or stopping free hosting of projects.
Since inxi has until august to fully move, I'm personally certainly not in any
hurry. I'm leaning towards never trusting a hosted repo again houwever for
wiki, I'm going to look into the options, it's probably best to connect issues
with the source repo, but I'm not going to trust the site documentation to a
non free for profit site again, we'll probably put that on inxi.org and make it
a standalone site, that's a better way to handle things long term, same as I do
already for smxi.org, a site that never fails and never goes down and never is
hit by a flakey source host deciding they can't be bothered to do their jobs
anymore because they don't feel like it, and can't handle spamming and
spammers, a problem google has always had, lol, in every part of their
business, not being able to handle spammers,Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 25 Mar 2015 at 6:10
- Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Task
- Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
vasc...@gmail.comon 25 Mar 2015 at 6:58