Re: we now have "lilypond" organization on GitHub

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/9/16 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:49:42AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> > What's wrong with GitHub, anyway?
>>
>> It requires separate accounts and credentials (much more likely to be a
>> target for attacks), has its own "terms of service", may choose to
>> discontinue projects based on commercial criteria, can cause tool
>> lock-in and so on, relies on its own proprietary software.
>
> All the above is true, but github also provides a nicer way for
> developers to interact with git, by at least one order of
> magnitude.  I'd actually give github one order of magnitude for
> their overall website, plus an additional order of magnitude for
> their "git help" doc pages, which are absolutely fantastic.

+100 for everything, Graham is emanating pure wisdom in this email ;-)

> I heartily endorse GUB moving back to Jan's account or to a shared
> lilypond account, and doubly so for all the other git repositories
> (lilypond-extra, lilypad, whatever else).  One nice thing about
> git (as opposed to issue reports) is that it's extremely portable.
> Once those repositories are forked, I'll remove my version of them
> so that there's no confusion.

Actually, it would be probably best to "transfer ownership" (you can
find this in repository settings), so that the repo in the lilypond's
account will not be displayed as "forked from xxx", but an "original"
one.

best,
Janek