Hello,
just wanted to say that I only had good experiences so far with github, albeit with rather small codebases compared to Genode. Are there any other popular medium to large projects using github?
Julian (Sorry for top posting, posting from phone)
Christian Helmuth <christian.helmuth@...1...> schrieb:
Hello,
one particular project that I am closely following is Milkymist (http://milkymist.org), which is an Open-Source SoC (HDL) + system software + applications software. Last time I met the project's founder Sébastien Bourdeauducq in summer, he was full of praise about Github, especially about the user interface.
Actually, the existence and reputation of Github served as a strong argument for convincing me to make the switch from Mercurial (which we used internally during the last 3 years) to Git in the first place.
From what I gathered so far, I see no reason not to go for Github.
Compared to Genode's status quo (SVN on Sourceforge), it seems to be vastly superior in each respect. Most importantly, I think that the simplicity of not only forking the code but also collaborating in a loosely coupled and distributed fashion as promoted so well by Github would be a win for our project.
Cheers Norman
Hi Julian,
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 06:13:56PM +0100, Julian Stecklina wrote:
Are there any other popular medium to large projects using github?
I think https://github.com/torvalds/linux is a proof of feasibility. GitHub picked up when kernel.org had problems this summer.
Greets
Just playing devil's advocate here,
Linus was actually a little displeased with github for _managing_ the larger projects, see here: http://blueparen.com/node/12
There was also a decent rant thread from him about it somewhere but I'm having trouble locating it now.
I suppose Linux has a lot worse signal-to-noise ratio than genode would though on source commits (at least at this stage)
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Christian Helmuth <christian.helmuth@...1...> wrote:
Hi Wes,
thanks for the link. I can understand Linus Torvald's point as he has established a ridig and well-tuned flow of pull requests for his project. Having every contributor posting issues and pull requests to the mainline repository is obviously not going to work. I hope that the Github developers will listen to his critique because otherwise the solution won't scale to projects at the size of the Linux kernel. That said, I don't foresee this becoming a problem for Genode in the short (and mid) term.
Cheers Norman
Yep, I am personally happy with github and think it would be a good move for Genode. Like I said, I was just playing devil's advocate with the intention of making sure the decision was as informed as possible :)
Cheers, Wes On 19/12/2011 8:24 PM, "Norman Feske" <norman.feske@...1...> wrote: