Tmux has left SourceForge • Hacker News Board

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#51

Post by codychan » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 8:55 AM UTC

Finally.

I remember that the fist problem occurred to me that wasn't not solved by Google was solved by asking in the mailing list of tmux, and now it it moved to Github, I can finally ask question at the issue page.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#52

Post by alptony » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:04 AM UTC

From the "tmux-users" mailing list:

> Will pull requests on GitHub now be allowed as a means of contributing patches?

> No, patches still need to come by email to me [Nicholas Marriott] or the ML.

I wonder, what's the main reason behind it? What's wrong with Github PRs?

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#53

Post by madaxe_again » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:12 AM UTC

josephg wrote: post #40

doiwin wrote: post #30

SourceForge was founded 1999. Now, 16 years later they start to abuse their power. GitHub was launched 2008. Does this mean we can expect GitHub to start abusing our data by 2024?

Github has a stable business model which depends on their reputation as a host. As I understand it, that isn't something that could ever be said of SourceForge. I'm not saying github will be around forever, but I highly doubt they'll make the same mistake sourceforge is making now.

SF was highly reputable back in the day - why else do you think so many projects which have roots back in the 90's are hosted there?

Never say never. 15 years ago nobody would've dreamt SF would have gone this way.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#54

Post by rplnt » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:13 AM UTC

alptony wrote: post #52

From the "tmux-users" mailing list: > Will pull requests on GitHub now be allowed as a means of contributing patches? > No, patches still need to come by email to me [Nicholas Marriott] or the ML. I wonder, what's the main reason behind it? What's wrong with Github PRs?

The comments section.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#55

Post by dagw » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:13 AM UTC

alptony wrote: post #52

From the "tmux-users" mailing list: > Will pull requests on GitHub now be allowed as a means of contributing patches? > No, patches still need to come by email to me [Nicholas Marriott] or the ML. I wonder, what's the main reason behind it? What's wrong with Github PRs?

I don't know what issues tmux has, but these are the reasons Linus also refuses to use Github PRs: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#56

Post by junto » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:18 AM UTC

merb wrote: post #28

edge17 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got malware in the installer for Filezilla on my Mac. They shove malware in all sorts of non-windows stuff these days...

You should start using Cyberduck, it has a Free Client which pops up a window once you installed the free version (but the popup appears only ONCE and does not contain any malware or advertisments), and a paid version without a popup.

And Cyberduck also supports Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3 containers.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#57

Post by mrweasel » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:18 AM UTC

alptony wrote: post #52

From the "tmux-users" mailing list: > Will pull requests on GitHub now be allowed as a means of contributing patches? > No, patches still need to come by email to me [Nicholas Marriott] or the ML. I wonder, what's the main reason behind it? What's wrong with Github PRs?

I believe, and I might be very wrong, that tmux is developed in the OpenBSD CVS tree, and patches are then merged from there to Github. The patches would need to be applied to the code in CVS, so a Github pull-request would be useless.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#58

Post by spdionis » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:27 AM UTC

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #48

lloeki wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ScummVM, Inkscape and wkhtmltopdf seem to be hosted there.

Not wkhtmltopdf - It is on github and has been for some time. https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf It was never on sourceforge as far as I know. It was in Google Code and then later github

Except that the download links on wkhtmltopdf.org send you on Sourceforge...

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#59

Post by mataug » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:28 AM UTC

Finally !

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#60

Post by jnbiche » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:30 AM UTC

codychan wrote: post #51

Finally. I remember that the fist problem occurred to me that wasn't not solved by Google was solved by asking in the mailing list of tmux, and now it it moved to Github, I can finally ask question at the issue page.

Please don't do that. The issues page is for issues, not support. Even if TMUX is one of the few projects where the maintainers don't mind answering support questions on the issues page (not likely), it's a bad habit to get into.

Please ask support questions on StackOverflow, or the mailing list, or IRC. Not the issues page. It makes life much harder for the maintainer.

(God, I'm such a greybeard now)