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reply "Mike James" <foo bar.com> writes:
What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code... 
GitHub or dsource?

-=mike=-
Jul 07 2011
next sibling parent "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:13:53 +0300, Mike James <foo bar.com> wrote:


 What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D  
 code...
 GitHub or dsource?


Reasons for using GitHub:

* Makes collaboration easier (forking / pull requests)
* Instant project creation
* Better uptime, I think

Reasons for using DSource:

* Your project is published among other D projects on DSource
* Has per-project forums
* Also supports Subversion and Mercurial

-- 
Best regards,
  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir thecybershadow.net
Jul 07 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
At least for code hosting you should use github.
Jul 07 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Mirko Pilger <pilger cymotec.de> writes:
google code is a good choice if you prefer mercurial.

http://code.google.com/projecthosting/
Jul 07 2011
parent Bernard Helyer <b.helyer gmail.com> writes:
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:33:01 +0200, Mirko Pilger wrote:


 google code is a good choice if you prefer mercurial.
 
 http://code.google.com/projecthosting/


Not really, it's pretty blah. Of the hg providers, BitBucket is the best. 
Not a patch on GitHub though.
Oct 09 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:13:53 -0400, Mike James <foo bar.com> wrote:


 What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D  
 code...
 GitHub or dsource?


Github provides much better collaborative source control.  However,  
dsource provides a bug tracking system linked to your source code.  I  
guess github does too, but I haven't used it.  I like the Trac interface  
and features, so I'm more comfortable with dsource.

In all, I think Trac (included in dsource) tips the scales for dsource,  
but the one thing that really *really* tips the scales in favor of github  
is that your project isn't lost in a graveyard of abandoned projects.   
That aspect of dsource really needs fixing.  If I were to choose a new  
place for a project, I'd probably choose github, and see how the issue  
tracker works out.

-Steve
Jul 07 2011
parent Graham Fawcett <fawcett uwindsor.ca> writes:
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:09:12 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:


 On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:13:53 -0400, Mike James <foo bar.com> wrote:
 

 What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D
 code...
 GitHub or dsource?


 
 Github provides much better collaborative source control.  However,
 dsource provides a bug tracking system linked to your source code.  I
 guess github does too, but I haven't used it.  I like the Trac interface
 and features, so I'm more comfortable with dsource.
 
 In all, I think Trac (included in dsource) tips the scales for dsource,
 but the one thing that really *really* tips the scales in favor of
 github is that your project isn't lost in a graveyard of abandoned
 projects. That aspect of dsource really needs fixing.  If I were to
 choose a new place for a project, I'd probably choose github, and see
 how the issue tracker works out.


Trac has a plugin for Git. It would be possible to maintain a local clone
on dsource (for example) of a Github-hosted project, and use Trac as your
"project frontend." You'd need a cronjob or something to git-pull changes
from the Github site.

Graham
Jul 08 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"Mike James" <foo bar.com> wrote in message 
news:iv4pp8$2td5$1 digitalmars.com...

 What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D 
 code... GitHub or dsource?


Unless you want to use mercurial, I'd say GitHub has the advantage of 
handling forks and collaboration much better. But DSource is better for 
forums and issue tracking. So I would just use both - code hosting at github 
and forums/issue-tracking at dsource. Wiki could probably go either way, but 
I havent really used GitHub's wiki system for anything more than one page, 
so I don't know.
Jul 07 2011
parent reply David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at> writes:
On 7/7/11 8:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 […]But DSource is better for
 forums and issue tracking. So I would just use both - code hosting at github
 and forums/issue-tracking at dsource.


I doubt that DSource is really the better option for issue tracking. 
First, GitHub rolled out »Issues 2.0« a few months ago, which now has 
support for assigning bugs, milestones, etc. I personally haven't used 
it for a large project yet, but Ruby on Rails switched to it (they 
previously used Lighthouse), so I suppose it is quite fit for the purpose.

Second, at least for QtD, there is a massive problem with using the 
DSource Trac instance: Spam. I don't know if this affects other projects 
as well, and you might not actually notice it that much because we 
usually hard-delete spammy tickets/changes via the admin panel, but it 
is definitely annoying.

David
Jul 20 2011
parent "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:
"David Nadlinger" <see klickverbot.at> wrote in message 
news:j068tj$4fv$1 digitalmars.com...

 On 7/7/11 8:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 [.]But DSource is better for
 forums and issue tracking. So I would just use both - code hosting at 
 github
 and forums/issue-tracking at dsource.


 I doubt that DSource is really the better option for issue tracking. 
 First, GitHub rolled out »Issues 2.0« a few months ago, which now has 
 support for assigning bugs, milestones, etc. I personally haven't used it 
 for a large project yet, but Ruby on Rails switched to it (they previously 
 used Lighthouse), so I suppose it is quite fit for the purpose.

 Second, at least for QtD, there is a massive problem with using the 
 DSource Trac instance: Spam. I don't know if this affects other projects 
 as well, and you might not actually notice it that much because we usually 
 hard-delete spammy tickets/changes via the admin panel, but it is 
 definitely annoying.


I might have been thinking of BitBucket. BitBucket's issue system is horrid.
Jul 21 2011
prev sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 7/7/2011 10:13 AM, Mike James wrote:

 What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D code...
 GitHub or dsource?


Whatever the technical merits of one or the other, when the dmd/phobos sources 
switched to github the level of participation by collaborators on improving the 
source increased probably by a factor of 10.
Jul 07 2011