From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Toon Claes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 10:46:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499330856 5380 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2017 08:47:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 08:47:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (darwin) Cc: Jonas Bernoulli , Richard Stallman , Noam Postavsky , John Wiegley , Jean-Christophe Helary , Yuri Khan , Emacs developers , John Yates To: Paul Michael Reilly Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 06 10:47:30 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dT2Rd-0000yO-Kt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:47:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT2Rh-0003GY-B3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 04:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT2Qf-0003Es-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 04:46:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT2QZ-0007uT-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 04:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-l3b-97.contactoffice.com ([212.3.242.97]:36024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT2QZ-0007qN-No; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 04:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth1.co-bxl (smtpauth1.co-bxl [10.2.0.15]) by mailout-l3b-97.contactoffice.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33777622; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 10:46:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from T-437.local ([81.83.195.177]) by smtp.contactoffice.com (envelope-from ) with ESMTPA ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 10:46:18 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Paul Michael Reilly's message of "Thu, 06 Jul 2017 05:06:54 +0000") X-ContactOffice-Account: com:91601486 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.3.242.97 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216207 Archived-At: Paul Michael Reilly writes: > That is wonderful news! Were Magit a GNU project a few years ago... > > There are likely more than a few of us who have learned Git via Magit > and for which we are grateful to Jonas and the Magit contributors. Let me first say, I am not against making Magit a GNU project, in contrary. But I think Magit would never have gotten such a vibrant community if the project was hosted on Savannah, rather than on GitHub. Having a more /modern development platform/, like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/..., makes it much easier for new contributors to participate on a project. So making a project an official GNU project is two-fold. All the legal paperwork would be in order for all contributors, but I seriously doubt the Magit project would ever have reach anything close to the current 207 contributors. I know this discussion has been raised several times before, but I really would like to see GNU/FSF to adopt a more modern platform. -- Toon