<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2013 18:45, Andreas Jung <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@zopyx.com" target="_blank">lists@zopyx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">yuppie wrote:<br>
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>> You do realise it's:<br>
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>> a) free (for us) b) decentralised<br>
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> What do you mean by "it"? What by "free"? What is "decentralised"?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I mean, there's no tangible cost (financial or otherwise) of using GitHub; and git's architecture pretty much ensures that there's no lock-in (especially if mirroring is set up).</div>
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> Why do your points a) and b) make supporting GitHub Inc. a good<br>
> decision?<br></div></blockquote><div> </div><div style>I don't see it as supporting GitHub. I see it as using a service that is free to us and rather good. It saves resources (e.g. the time spent managing <a href="http://svn.zope.org">svn.zope.org</a>; the cost of bandwidth) that can be better spent elsewhere (e.g. working on Zope/CMF). It helps make it easier for others to contribute, because so many people already know how to use GitHub.</div>
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> GitHub Inc. is too successful. It already has too much power. That's<br>
> not good for the open source community.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Because?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>We all value your contributions to Zope and CMF __very much__ but is it<br>
really necessary being that fundamental?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I'd echo that sentiment (especially the first part).</div><div style><br></div><div style>What's the worst that could happen? GitHub goes belly-up and we starting using a different remote in our repos? GitHub tries to violate the license terms of our software somehow (that seems very unlikely)?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Martin</div></div></div></div>