[Owncloud] Gitorious vs Github

Stefan Göckeritz goeckeritz at rheinahrcampus.de
Thu May 3 14:14:45 UTC 2012


I agree, 100%!
Let's move...

Cheers
Stefan

Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012 16:10:06 schrieb Jan-Christoph Borchardt:
> By the way, OpenHatch (http://openhatch.org ) recently moved from
> Gitorious to Github for similar reasons as the issues we have:
> http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2011-November/002521.html
>
> I can only emphasize that Gitorious is also a centralized service. I
> can not use my account anywhere else, nor can I be sure they run the
> code they purportedly do. They can shut down any minute – and in fact,
> they have way more downtime or problems than Github. It often is a
> pain to work with when it simply doesn’t do what it is supposed to do
> – which is »just work, damnit«.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Arthur Schiwon<blizzz at owncloud.com>  wrote:
>> On 05/01/2012 03:14 AM, Sam Tuke wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 22:43 +0200, Klaas Freitag wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Freedom requires freedom, its not working otherwise.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is also my view. I disagree with the proposal to move to GitHub.
>>>
>>> ownCloud should not associate itself with proprietary or neo-proprietary
>>> (open core) partners or suppliers unless there is a significant benefit
>>> in doing so. I don't think GitHub offers sufficient benefits to merit
>>> such an association.
>>>
>>> However, an improvement to the availability of the ownCloud repo would
>>> be good, and I know that Frank is already looking into this.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Sam.
>>
>>
>> I fully second it.
>>
>> I do not see that we need to leave a free solution for a proprietary one. No
>> doubt there is room for improvement within Gitorious.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Arthur
>>
>>
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