Tim Harper <[email protected]> writes:
If you really insisted on having Vimpulse somewhere more "cool" than Assembla, I'd suggest Gitorious, not GitHub. Not only because Gitorious is libre, but also because it's project-centric, not person-centric as GitHub.
You can set up organizations in GitHub now, which you can use as a project centric location
Didn't know about that, thanks. (<http://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations> for anyone interested)
Anyway, I personally really like the mailing list model -- when you send patches to a mailing list, more people have chance to look at it and chime in when they have anything to say on the matter. This is a good point, and it has its merits. However, have you ever used the network browser in GitHub? It makes it really easy for people to have multiple forks of a project, and if somebody happens to create a patch that, for whatever reason, isn't merged in, it makes it really easy to find. (I've used it many times to find patches for abandoned projects).
Yeah, the network browser is nice, as are other GitHub features, although I don't really have any use for them. :-) Maybe it's just me, but I really prefer the "traditional" e-mail + patches way (even with projects that use GitHub and even though I do have a GitHub account). Git makes that totally painless anyway and the open discussion possibilities are unmatched by the hosting sites' fancy features. Maybe Web 2.0/3.0 whatever is the future with things like Google Wave and whatnot, but right now it all just feels like too much hassle (no unified UI, best-used-with-a-"modern"-browser, being tied to a particular provider etc.) for too little or no profit to me compared to e-mail. Štěpán