digitalmars.D - GitHub or dsource?
- "Mike James" <foo bar.com> Jul 07 2011
- "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> Jul 07 2011
- Trass3r <un known.com> Jul 07 2011
- Mirko Pilger <pilger cymotec.de> Jul 07 2011
- Bernard Helyer <b.helyer gmail.com> Oct 09 2011
- "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Jul 07 2011
- "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> Jul 07 2011
- David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at> Jul 20 2011
- "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> Jul 21 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Jul 07 2011
- Graham Fawcett <fawcett uwindsor.ca> Jul 08 2011
What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code... GitHub or dsource? -=mike=-
Jul 07 2011
"Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:13:53 +0300, Mike James <foo bar.com> wrote:What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code... GitHub or dsource?
Reasons for using GitHub: * Makes collaboration easier (forking / pull requests) * Instant project creation * Better uptime, I think Reasons for using DSource: * Your project is published among other D projects on DSource * Has per-project forums * Also supports Subversion and Mercurial -- Best regards, Vladimir mailto:vladimir thecybershadow.net
Jul 07 2011
google code is a good choice if you prefer mercurial. http://code.google.com/projecthosting/
Jul 07 2011
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:33:01 +0200, Mirko Pilger wrote:google code is a good choice if you prefer mercurial. http://code.google.com/projecthosting/
Not really, it's pretty blah. Of the hg providers, BitBucket is the best. Not a patch on GitHub though.
Oct 09 2011
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:13:53 -0400, Mike James <foo bar.com> wrote:What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code... GitHub or dsource?
Github provides much better collaborative source control. However, dsource provides a bug tracking system linked to your source code. I guess github does too, but I haven't used it. I like the Trac interface and features, so I'm more comfortable with dsource. In all, I think Trac (included in dsource) tips the scales for dsource, but the one thing that really *really* tips the scales in favor of github is that your project isn't lost in a graveyard of abandoned projects. That aspect of dsource really needs fixing. If I were to choose a new place for a project, I'd probably choose github, and see how the issue tracker works out. -Steve
Jul 07 2011
"Mike James" <foo bar.com> wrote in message news:iv4pp8$2td5$1 digitalmars.com...What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code... GitHub or dsource?
Unless you want to use mercurial, I'd say GitHub has the advantage of handling forks and collaboration much better. But DSource is better for forums and issue tracking. So I would just use both - code hosting at github and forums/issue-tracking at dsource. Wiki could probably go either way, but I havent really used GitHub's wiki system for anything more than one page, so I don't know.
Jul 07 2011
On 7/7/11 8:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:[…]But DSource is better for forums and issue tracking. So I would just use both - code hosting at github and forums/issue-tracking at dsource.
I doubt that DSource is really the better option for issue tracking. First, GitHub rolled out »Issues 2.0« a few months ago, which now has support for assigning bugs, milestones, etc. I personally haven't used it for a large project yet, but Ruby on Rails switched to it (they previously used Lighthouse), so I suppose it is quite fit for the purpose. Second, at least for QtD, there is a massive problem with using the DSource Trac instance: Spam. I don't know if this affects other projects as well, and you might not actually notice it that much because we usually hard-delete spammy tickets/changes via the admin panel, but it is definitely annoying. David
Jul 20 2011
"David Nadlinger" <see klickverbot.at> wrote in message news:j068tj$4fv$1 digitalmars.com...On 7/7/11 8:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:[.]But DSource is better for forums and issue tracking. So I would just use both - code hosting at github and forums/issue-tracking at dsource.
I doubt that DSource is really the better option for issue tracking. First, GitHub rolled out »Issues 2.0« a few months ago, which now has support for assigning bugs, milestones, etc. I personally haven't used it for a large project yet, but Ruby on Rails switched to it (they previously used Lighthouse), so I suppose it is quite fit for the purpose. Second, at least for QtD, there is a massive problem with using the DSource Trac instance: Spam. I don't know if this affects other projects as well, and you might not actually notice it that much because we usually hard-delete spammy tickets/changes via the admin panel, but it is definitely annoying.
I might have been thinking of BitBucket. BitBucket's issue system is horrid.
Jul 21 2011
On 7/7/2011 10:13 AM, Mike James wrote:What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code... GitHub or dsource?
Whatever the technical merits of one or the other, when the dmd/phobos sources switched to github the level of participation by collaborators on improving the source increased probably by a factor of 10.
Jul 07 2011
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:09:12 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:13:53 -0400, Mike James <foo bar.com> wrote:What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code... GitHub or dsource?
Github provides much better collaborative source control. However, dsource provides a bug tracking system linked to your source code. I guess github does too, but I haven't used it. I like the Trac interface and features, so I'm more comfortable with dsource. In all, I think Trac (included in dsource) tips the scales for dsource, but the one thing that really *really* tips the scales in favor of github is that your project isn't lost in a graveyard of abandoned projects. That aspect of dsource really needs fixing. If I were to choose a new place for a project, I'd probably choose github, and see how the issue tracker works out.
Trac has a plugin for Git. It would be possible to maintain a local clone on dsource (for example) of a Github-hosted project, and use Trac as your "project frontend." You'd need a cronjob or something to git-pull changes from the Github site. Graham
Jul 08 2011