Re: [tlug] Open-source repository question

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@example.com>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:32:48AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Jim Breen writes:
> 
>  > I'd like to pull together some of the variants [of xjdic] and place
>  > the whole thing on a public repository such as SourceForge. I have
>  > never used that sort of system, so I'd like some advice:
>  > 
>  > - what is a good one to use?
> 
> The big ones that I know of are SourceForge, Savannah (the GNU
> Project's distribution site), Berlios, and Launchpad (Canonical/
> Ubuntu's dev/distribution site).  There are a number of lesser-known
> alternatives (github et al, dotsrc.org, alioth.debian.org).
> 
>  > - what are the merits/demerits of the possibilities?
> 
> It would help to know what your goals are.  Roughly:
...
> - alioth is a typical example of a project-oriented repo; it is
>   primarily for use by Debian, but with sponsorship (eg, from xjdic's
>   Debian maintainer) third parties can use it.

I was going to suggest this as well. If, as Jim says, the debian
maintainer is that active on xjdic then you would both benefit from
sharing the same repository, be it on git, svn, mercurial, darcs or
whatever.
See here http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth

One last comment, I personally don't like github that much. I think it's
too easy to fork and lose track of other people's work. As far as I
could see you have a maintainer chasing people for patches instead of
contributors trying to get their stuff included upstream.

Eventually there is also this public git hosting site:
http://repo.or.cz/
-- 
mattia
:wq!