linux-next on github

Posted Sep 19, 2011 22:30 UTC (Mon) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
Parent article: linux-next on github

I'm honestly surprised nobody is bitching about using a proprietary service/infrastructure. :)

(note: I <3 github)

linux-next on github

Posted Sep 19, 2011 23:20 UTC (Mon) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

Well, it is not like Bitkeeper where the community did depend on Bitkeeper (for example the application).

With git this is not true, as has been shown now.

It is actually pretty easy to switch the distribution point to somewhere else.

linux-next on github

Posted Sep 20, 2011 5:51 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (3 responses)

That depends: If you use it merely as a git repository, it is as good as any git hosting.

If you start to depend on non-standard features of it (e.g.: bug reports, wiki), you can call it a proprietary infrastructure, is switching from it won't be trivial.

linux-next on github

Posted Sep 20, 2011 8:02 UTC (Tue) by geertj (guest, #4116) [Link] (2 responses)

Actually the github wiki offers a set of standard markup formats (Textile, RestructuredText, Markdown, ...), and its contents are available as a git repo. So i wouldn't call it proprietary either.

linux-next on github

Posted Sep 20, 2011 12:15 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (1 responses)

What would it take to use that in git.kernel.org or in your own personal git server?

linux-next on github

Posted Sep 21, 2011 17:37 UTC (Wed) by gcarothers (subscriber, #63072) [Link]

All of the source code for making the wiki is public

https://github.com/github/gollum

https://github.com/github/markup