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We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by davidgerard »

Joeboy wrote: post #40
bcantrill wrote: post #17

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…

Microsoft or otherwise, I don't think the idea that GitHub is going to be run like a public utility forever is a smart bet.

It's reasonably easy to pick up your repo and leave.

How easy is it to pick up your bugs and leave?

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by davidgerard »

nevi-me wrote: post #24
statictype wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like Bitbucket and have been using them for some time but their interface is slow and not as intuitive as Github's.

Also like Bitbucket, and agree with the interface. They made things responsive a while ago, and there were lots of complaints about the 'create a README' decision as a space-waster, they haven't done anything about it since. I like their revenue model, but because of the existence of JIRA and Stash, Atlassian are refusing/reluctant to improve the issue tracker in Bitbucket. For example, I can't manage releases, creat…

Ha. Yeah, we use paid Github and paid Jira at work, and it's an idyllic combination. In a couple of decades, Jira is the closest I've ever seen to the Bugtracker That Doesn't Suck Much.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by CmonDev »

bcantrill wrote: post #17

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…

That would be great! Next time don't use one provider "cuz' everyone is on GH, dood". Bitbucket is pretty awesome too.

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by ghuntley »

Permit wrote: post #9
kodablah wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it has always been there: https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp

That's actually just a clone of the codeplex project. As mentioned in the README contributions first go (went?) through codeplex.

Correct but this is purely for legacy reasons - all changes currently go through Microsoft's full intensive testing process/suite due to shipping with Visual Studio/F# being a product whereby you can involve the call centres/invoke enterprise incident resolution process etc. Don Syme did a presentation over at http://www.meetup.com/fsharpsydney/events/204864872/ last week which went into this in detail. This will all be changing with migration of development to GitHub first, codeplex will disappear in time as the language further continues on the path of seperation from Microsft - http://fsharp.org/

Re: We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub

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Post by pjmlp »

tdicola wrote: post #36
bcantrill wrote: post #17

This is getting terrifyingly close to my prediction that Microsoft should/would/will buy GitHub. When I first started predicting this two or so years ago, it was mainly for its comedic value (it always got laughs, followed by "yeah, they should!" followed by nervous laughter followed by "wait, do you think they would actually do that?!"), but after the open sourcing of .NET I honestly think anything is possible. Espe…

What does MS gain? Is online source code storage really going to be a million or billion dollar business for them? It seems like it's just a race to the bottom with costs, just like Dropbox, Box, etc. etc.

Hipster value. All the cool kids are now using Github.
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