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Lydia Pintscher lydia at kde.org
Tue Jan 6 16:34:21 CET 2009


proxymailing for Jeff #2 ;-)


Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>> why don't we use GitHub instead of Jeff's private Git server?
>>
>> It's a really nice (free) Git hosting service; also offers many
>> additional collaboration features. Plus, it's easy to use.
>
> Just found a great article that explains what makes GitHub so special
> for open source:
>
> http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/01/the-day-i-got-git-with-some-help-from-github/
>

I don't think this changes all of the other issues with Github that I
mentioned in my previous email.

It basically says, "if I let the project die, someone else can easily
find it, fork it, and take over".  I don't think we'll be in danger of
letting the project die...

--Jeff



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Lydia Pintscher
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