Re: Moving to Github?

  • From: Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:09:26 +0100

 On 5/9/2012 7:55 PM, Cedric Vivier wrote:
> I wonder if it would be a good idea to take the opportunity of the
> momentum of moving to the new list to also move development over to
> github (or at least have the mirror at github rather than repo.or.cz).
>
> Advantages I can see :
> - very reliable and fast git infrastructure

https://status.github.com/ -- 2 issues in the last 3 days. Quite often down.

> - easier to follow luajit changes (even without git)

http://luajit.org/changes.html
http://luajit.org/git/luajit-2.0.git/feed.xml

> - easier and more open way to contribute (pull requests)

Isn't that just a GitHub-branded patch?

> - optional light issue tracking

I guess this would be easier than searching list archives

> Thoughts?

Useful maybe. GitHub really is overhyped though. cgit does nearly as good a job.

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