[prog] Choosing a source repository site

Claudine Chionh claudine+chix at fastmail.fm
Sun Jan 31 01:58:12 UTC 2010


On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:35 -0800, "Akkana Peck" <akkana at shallowsky.com>
wrote:
> John.Sturdy writes:
> > Hi,
> > I'll soon be making a new project public; in the past I've used SourceForge; I know some people prefer GoogleCode (which I haven't yet tried putting anything on). Any thoughts on which one (or some other one) is better?
> 
> I couldn't find much on the relative merits of the various free source
> repositories. I've ended up using google code for several projects;
> I was tempted to use github since I'd like to be able to use git,
> but I didn't like the flash dependence of some of their web pages,
> and I knew google offered a bug tracker whereas I couldn't see
> find anything on github telling me whether they offered services
> like that.

Github does have an issue tracker, though they could do a better job of
listing their services before signing up.

Claudine
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  Claudine Chionh
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