Re: [Tinycc-devel] Github

[Karl Skomski]

> Apart from that: does github have kind of like mob branches by default? 
> Because, quite frankly, that's the only reason I contributed anything, 
> however small, back to tinycc.  If it hadn't I still would have had fun for a 
> weekend fixing tcc, just > > > without anybody gaining anything from it, as 
> my patches would have never seen anybody else, and nobody would have seen 
> them.

Github makes it easy to collaborate with public visible pull requests.
http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/

> Higher google rank,
>> Huh?  So you think google is giving points for github, but not for 
>> repo.or.cz (the best), or gitorious or any of the others?  Proof?

Github makes it easy for Google to index the important information.
Good SEO overall :D

> nice readme,
>>  Doesn't write itself, no matter the VCS.  So how does a new VCS magically 
>> help?

Github makes the README prominent readable on the "front-page" of the
repository. Much less visible with repo.or.cz

> easier forks
>> Well, I'm not exactly fluent in git (actually I hate its usability, which is 
>> next to non-existent), but what's difficult with "git checkout -b"?

Public visible fork networks: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/network

> etc.

You could use Travis.CI (http://travis-ci.org/) as continuous
integration service.

Organization Examples:  https://github.com/luvit/luvit
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

Kind regards,

Karl Skomski



On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Michael Matz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2012, Karl Skomski wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I discovered tinycc some days ago but only today I discovered the
>> current development repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git It's
>> not that easy to find the most-updated tinycc repository.
>>
>> I thought maybe it would be nice to switch the tinycc repository to a
>> github organization?
>
>
> How exactly would that help spreading interest (except in github)?
>
> Apart from that: does github have kind of like mob branches by default? 
> Because, quite frankly, that's the only reason I contributed anything, 
> however small, back to tinycc.  If it hadn't I still would have had fun for a 
> weekend fixing tcc, just without anybody gaining anything from it, as my 
> patches would have never seen anybody else, and nobody would have seen them.
>
>> Higher google rank,
>
>
> Huh?  So you think google is giving points for github, but not for repo.or.cz 
> (the best), or gitorious or any of the others?  Proof?
>
>> nice readme,
>
>
> Doesn't write itself, no matter the VCS.  So how does a new VCS magically 
> help?
>
>> easier collaborating,
>
>
> How exactly easier than today?
>
>> easier forks
>
>
> Well, I'm not exactly fluent in git (actually I hate its usability, which is 
> next to non-existent), but what's difficult with "git checkout -b"?
>
>> etc.
>
>
> Aha.
>
>
> Ciao,
> Michael.
>
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