I love using GitHub, but there is an established process and home for the kernel that works and I see no reason to change it.
Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
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Re: Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
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There's git-appraise[0] which decentralizes issues and PRs by putting them as objects inside of git. It also features a webui[1] [0] https://github.com/google/git-appraise [1] https://git-appraise-web.appspot.com/static/reviews.html#?re...
This is actually the one good way of handling it IMO. Decentralizing git without losing the UX benefits of using a site like github is done by handling it like torrents and packaging everything into the repo/technology itself. The Linux kernel is already part of the way there, it's just the "local client" aspect that's missing, along with a focus on actually making it intuitive and fully integrated into git itself. T…
I think you just described the Fossil dvcs.
Re: Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
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True, but irrelevant for Linus. It's not a good way to get ahead[1], but if you're already far enough ahead... Personally, I think I'm on "your" side -- as it were -- on the side of civility, but sometimes you've just got to get shit done. Properly, which sometimes means shouting the right things at the right people[2]. I do think it's unreasonable of you to say that Linus is not "being reasonable", as you've clearly…
> I do think it's unreasonable of you to say that Linus is not "being reasonable", as you've clearly implied in your comment. I'm literally using the terminology of the person that I'm trying to refute! :P If you want to argue phrasing, take that to jacquesm.
I'm sorry. I was too carried away to notice! :)
(Which reminds me: There should probably be some sort of mandatory-quoting mechanism on HN. It seems weird that you can snipe comments by editing at just the right time. That's not what happened in this case, I'm just saying that it would probably be a good thing to have measures against it. Sorry, that's my META-rant done.)
Re: Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
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Hm, I don't think so. Linus never had a problem with bitkeeper being proprietary, and he actually was annoyed when Andrew Tridgell tried to reverse-engineer the bitkeeper protocol. Linus seemed very unhappy with Tridgell, not with Larry McVoy for making bitkeeper proprietary. He built git out of necessity, not out of some desire to have free software.
> He built git out of necessity, not out of some desire to have free software. History has proven that necessity is a much better incentive, and produces better products than ideology.
I don't know about that. Hg was built at the same time for the same reason but seems to have more ideology around it, and I would argue it's a superior product that just was unlucky enough to not have github built for it.
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> He built git out of necessity, not out of some desire to have free software. History has proven that necessity is a much better incentive, and produces better products than ideology.
I don't know about that. Hg was built at the same time for the same reason but seems to have more ideology around it, and I would argue it's a superior product that just was unlucky enough to not have github built for it.
For people who seriously care about performance like me, git is by far the superior product.
I don't care much about the github website, because 99% of the time I use git from the command line.
Re: Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
#247At GitLab we're looking into addressing this use case https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36239