Re: Savannah vs. Gitlab

[Gregory Casamento]

precisely the type of cross-project interaction I'm interested in.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:14 AM, David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:
> On 7 Dec 2015, at 11:05, Luboš Doležel <lubos@dolezel.info> wrote:
>>
>> I concur. We're talking about a "number of people" who would prefer 
>> Savannah, but the amount of people actually submitting code is very low. 
>> Just going to Savannah's website makes me feel like this is a dead project.
>>
>> If - for whatever reason - you later come to the conclusion that GitHub was 
>> not the right choice, migrating elsewhere is a matter of hours.
>>
>> If I were Greg, I'd also consider moving the whole project away from FSF. 
>> While I recognize the importance FSF has (had) for open source, just the 
>> need to do a snail mail round-trip with FSF to be allowed to contribute is a 
>> great obstacle for any FSF project. And I can tell you, a legally worthless 
>> one in my case - the Czech law explicitly forbids reassigning copyright 
>> except in well-defined cases (employee to employer and inheritance after 
>> author's death).
>
> To give a really concrete example of how :
>
> This morning, I fixed a bug in libobjc2.  The person who wrote the bug is 
> doing the rust-objc bridge.  He filed the bug via GitHub, which was easy for 
> him because all of his other projects are on GitHub and it’s a single sign 
> in.  The bug report referenced a failing test case in the Rust bridge, which 
> I could easily see (because GitHub allows cross-referencing between 
> projects).  I was able to comment on their test case as well, to help them 
> refine it into something that will work better as the language evolves.
>
> This is a fairly common interaction for the other projects that I use on 
> GitHub.  I have never seen this kind of thing from Savannah.
>
> David
>
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