Re: we now have "lilypond" organization on GitHub

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi,

in the meantime i saw Graham's email, so just a short reply:

2013/9/16 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> [github] can cause tool lock-in and so on,

every tool can.  In this case, i think that the degree of lock-in is
small and probably negligible (as Graham said, git repositories are
portable).

Note that i'm *not* proposing to move LilyPond development to Github.
I just want to organize stuff that's already there, and give LilyPond
wide exposure by hosting a "semi-official" repository clone there.

> With Savannah, we have system
> administrators sympathetic to our cause rather than their business
> model.  And the LilyPond project is quite beyond a "don't care" size for
> them.

That's good, and i'm not saying that we should abandon Savannah!

I want LilyPond to be present on Github because it's a very widely
known platform (according to Wikipedia, it's two orders of magnitude
more popular than Savannah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_software_hosting_facilities#Popularity).
 Together with ease of use mentioned by Graham this can result in more
contributors joining Lily development.

best,
Janek