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

[Carsten Fuchs]

Hi Bill and Russel,

many thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Best regards
Carsten


Am 2017-09-19 um 14:22 schrieb 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.
> 
>