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On 04/18/2015 01:09 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:04:40 +0800 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Neil Williams wrote: >> >>> git won the DVCS argument a long time ago. github won the DVCS >>> UI argument a long time ago - it is clearly the one UI that >>> the largest number of git contributors actually want to use. >> >> Are there any good DFSG-free desktop UIs for git? > > For desktop UI, I find qgit to be usable. However, that's just for > viewing branches, diffs and history - contributions need to come > via something off desktop and qgit does little to help me when > reviewing patches submitted by others beyond what I would see > anyway with a web-based diff frontend or the superb 'meld'. (I > don't know where I would be without conflict resolution support in > meld - big *thank you* to the meld maintainers & upstream - I grew > to like meld when I was on svn, it has become even more important > and useful with git). > > So I should clarify that, github won the DVCS web UI ... it's > contribution support and repository creation / browsing / > searching support is far better than any of the other tools I have > to use (command-line, desktop or web). Integration with an issue > tracker actually works when most alternatives do not, the wiki is > fast, usable and has a nicer rendering than any other wiki I > regularly use. I also look at github and sites like it when > planning how to implement new web UI features in my own free > software. More important than all that, it's where the users are. > It's a circular argument, I know, but I use it because that's where > people expect to find stuff and where people expect to be able to > contribute. > > TBH I'm far from worried about a web service like github being run > on non-free software. It's not the sole source for anything I care > about, it provides a useful service to me but if it went away, meh, > it went away - I'd just have to find out where the users went and > probably follow. It's not that github is the best possible answer, > it is the best current answer and has a large, interested, user > base. It's primarily the user base that matters, the UI support is > very good but secondary to me. Ignoring or snubbing github won't > affect github or reduce it's usefulness to others - it will just > cut off a possibly interesting source of new contributors. > So we now just need somehow make every DD (or DM or other packaging contributor) to package one dependency for Gitlab and then make gitlab.debian.net infrastructure and everyone is happy I guess. Cheers, zlatan - -- Its not the COST, its the VALUE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVMkw3AAoJEC5cILs3kzv9OjMQAK0CyVxnzL/DvF19hNNDVOgD hBRh6VLrnryfKpcNTdIRpgvh9nRqKdhmoxB5AXK6ZblvCwVYxqJe0iT7qVek0a69 kjkC+nbkLqQzdMKrOMsbiH8qUKacW+sHAysMwy4EgGea/jRCp7QcSHBJ1YsgUOtq jZpTk1pBVwuPaVLTxn03VL6ZaWd3bDo6XZsmBoqhuk9Uw2y2pPWmTFcZcUfK5it7 BIddKBAHBiIpmF7d/00iVk4EGebAyYT8onEXE1ndZklqUPzlXaGjpmQsykCRIT+u 1KUqzhBXYdmczrjXJkGz74ILLJGWe16NXTBPqlp3XHFZZ3HjHuD9B2D5eUpj+5YB gg3cNweaLsq8HACXE28G6yszUhSkYIpFaTHb2X4ulyRZa1++Ac965gDbblSPphht /vw2+5oELq94J0soWjBvJeywS2YS/95lM10mCCUvKXHcvVTvdGmw4wmcz0V2QAi3 gR4BvQ/i1q1JAg0mJHzzI/Y6KLCpI9pSngRa3FjSwUNQ0YE0GFKgWu0rHfJugBUo db2IHrTbxkzxsQqYset9Yg9n4x5LfA0Y4JCwPEsOv9D/gDWI+1Mi0fuVl4ZNWiQP CXLjmo1Y+tnF+Smc4bw9EfbKHc8b9DBzf7cR64C6xceY7QQFz936YRr/Sdzej0oA rQKDvzmTyk2g2HFfR4rX =dAUO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55324c37.6010...@riseup.net
