Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub
by yepperino on Saturday August 20, 2016 @11:14PM
(#12329230)
It's probably been stated a million times before but it's hard to remember what coding was like before github. CVS and subversion - what's that? Github is so pervasive that when a project uses another git code sharing site you just get annoyed. Github Issues may suck, but it's so darn convenient and so well integrated. It's far worse when a project uses another ticket tracking system and just uses github for pull requests. Just give in to our new code overlords and go with the flow.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
> Github is so pervasive that when a project uses another git code sharing site you just get annoyed
Bitbucket's ability to lock down branches is pretty nice.
> Github Issues may suck, but it's so darn convenient and so well integrated. It's far worse when a project uses another ticket tracking system
I don't feel this is true, having worked on projects that used Jira, Unfuddle, Pivotal Tracker, Assembla, Trello, etc. Of course, none of those systems have the killer feature of turning a ticket into a giant scrollfest of "+1", emojis, and animated gifs.
> Just give in to our new code overlords and go with the flow.
No. They are turning coding into a monopolistic monoculture. Not everybody loves pull request-based workflows, you know.
You're right. I'm going to go back to uuencoding my tar files and posting them on usenet.
You clearly are far too young to have ever done this. :)
You need to split them, first. ;)
Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub
by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:56AM
(#12329452)
I always cringe when I find a useful tool still clinging to Sourceforge and it's abomination of a web site.