An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
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An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
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Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#2What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#32008 called, and it wants its realizations back.
Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#4What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
So, do you think it is possible to create something similar, but with the support for some other version control system, like mercurial? Or even a centralized one like svn?
Could it even be github to offer this, despite the name?
Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#5What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
So, do you think it is possible to create something similar, but with the support for some other version control system, like mercurial? Or even a centralized one like svn? Could it even be github to offer this, despite the name?
There's a github clone for mercurial: http://bitbucket.org/
Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#62008 called, and it wants its realizations back.
2000, rather. Source Forge was really social at some point; I used to routinely browse the "help wanted" sections and found a few interesting projects to contribute to that way.
I also like Savannah because I am a closet GNU-cultist :-)
Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#7What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
So, do you think it is possible to create something similar, but with the support for some other version control system, like mercurial? Or even a centralized one like svn? Could it even be github to offer this, despite the name?
CodePlex (most commonly used for .NET projects) has support for Mercurial but I don't think its social features are quite as strong as Github's.
Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#8What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
So, do you think it is possible to create something similar, but with the support for some other version control system, like mercurial? Or even a centralized one like svn? Could it even be github to offer this, despite the name?
Mercurial has http://bitbucket.org/ -- not nearly as popular but a tad less cluttered IMHO.
Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#9I haven't really looked into it; but do open source contributors not have a problem with using a closed platform to manage their products?
Re: An end to the loneliness of the open-source coder?
#10What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
So, do you think it is possible to create something similar, but with the support for some other version control system, like mercurial? Or even a centralized one like svn? Could it even be github to offer this, despite the name?
There is a hg plugin which allows lossless communication between git and hg [1]. So in a way github already exists for mercurial, and since it already exists there is no question as to whether or not it is possible to do.