[Scons-users] SCons moves to GitHub! https://github.com/SConsProject/scons

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 06:55 -0400, Bill Deegan wrote:
> critical mass for git and github.
> Including the many third party services which plug in to github and not
> bitbucket.

And the local tooling for Git as opposed to Mercurial. e.g. gitg vs. hgview –
the former works nicely, the latter seems broken a stalled.

Atlassian seem to be treating Mercurial as a third class citizen repository
system on BitBucket promoting Git ahead of all. Buckbucket support for Git is
far inferior to GitHub and GitLab. GitHub has an integrated code/issue/wiki/
system that seems to work better than the equivalent on GitLab oe BitBucket.
GitHub has the "mindshare" as the central repository management system for
distributed version control systems.

For many people, Git is overall inferior to Mercurial (and Breezy, and indeed
Fossil), but this move was debated long and hard and is I think the right
move.

-- 
Russel.
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