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More hosting places is goodMore hosting places is goodPosted Sep 11, 2008 15:13 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355)Parent article: Sun's Project Kenai
It's good to see more hosting places available on the 'net. When Sourceforge first burst onto the net there was precious little alternatives to roll your own. Now we have SoureForge, Savannah, Google Code, github and now Kenai.
I suspect modern distributed version control systems are making it a little easier for small projects to host there own stuff but there is still a place for the all your can eat web-space/mailman/version control service. And competition is good...
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More hosting places is good Posted Sep 11, 2008 15:43 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
There's also Launchpad, which I think might be the only one of these with clear plans to go open source in the near future (but I am not familiar with all of the others, so maybe some of them are also open source or going that way).
Anyhow, as you say, competition is good. It also shows that open source software projects are increasing in number in a healthy way.
More hosting places is good Posted Sep 11, 2008 16:27 UTC (Thu) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]
Launchpad has clear plans to become opensource? I must have missed that announcement.
Oh and if you want a completely open source hosting service - take a look at fedorahosted.org
More hosting places is good Posted Sep 11, 2008 16:31 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
Shuttleworth committed to opening it within a year:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/07/23/mark...
Hopefully he'll be good to his word.
depends Posted Sep 11, 2008 16:57 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]
They're still using and pushing bzr for no good reason (except it's "theirs" and historical, I guess).
Folks from both Canonical and Red Hat we cooperate with have had enough grief due to ever-changing (still inefficient compared to git) repo format... just as myself with bzr's broken concept of branches :-(
depends Posted Sep 11, 2008 18:20 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
"For no reason", that's a little far-fetched. One nice point in favor of Bazaar is that it's written in Python; if I were to go hacking on a DVCS, I'd pick Bazaar just for that reason. It also explains why quite a lot of plugins were written for it fairly quickly.
I didn't read the Bazaar source code, but if it's anything like other projects of theirs, then based on Storm, it's very elegant Python. In fact I learned a few tricks from the Storm codebase that have been useful in my work.
depends Posted Sep 11, 2008 21:21 UTC (Thu) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406) [Link]
> For no reason", that's a little far-fetched. One nice point in favor of
> Bazaar is that it's written in Python
Mercurial is also Python and in contrast to bazaar is just work, bazaar is sloooowww. For some strange reason is Sun MySQL trapped in closed source Launchpad https://launchpad.net/mysql .
Will hopefully move to Kenai and Mercurial real soon now.
depends Posted Sep 12, 2008 4:07 UTC (Fri) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
I didn't know Mercurial was also written in Python, thanks for the info.
launchpad and bzr Posted Sep 12, 2008 8:23 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
I suspect it's because it is meant to have broad support for other repos. After all the concept behind launchpads use of bzr I believe is to make it easy to fork the upstream repository for distro type work. Your comment suggests it doesn't work quite as advertised?
Personally I'm a git person although it does have some limitation when importing big CVS repositorys. I would like to see more hosting sites support git though.
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