Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XJksA-0002JV-4a for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:58:54 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.213.179 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.213.179; envelope-from=laanwj@gmail.com; helo=mail-ig0-f179.google.com; Received: from mail-ig0-f179.google.com ([209.85.213.179]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1XJks9-0003ms-GF for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:58:54 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f179.google.com with SMTP id h18so9729543igc.6 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:58:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.161.198 with SMTP id u6mr42651237icx.31.1408460328115; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.1.209 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:58:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:58:48 +0200 Message-ID: From: Wladimir To: Jeff Garzik Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (laanwj[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1XJks9-0003ms-GF Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:58:54 -0000 On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > It would be nice if the issues and git repo for Bitcoin Core were not > on such a centralized service as github, nice and convenient as it is. Despite my complaining about github, I don't like the idea of moving somewhere else. The current way of working - to use github for storing the tree, and use a custom script for signing+merging - is fine with me. Github has a low barrier to contribution. Almost every open source developer already has a github account. Switching to something self-hosted makes it more difficult for people to contribute. Plus if we have to take the hosting upon ourselves, we have to handle sysadmin work ourselves as well. That's not a good use of the limited manpower available. Also it will be a lot of work to migrate over all the current issues and pulls. I don't look forward to that. I don't see the point of this, sorry. Wladimir