[PLUG-Devel] OT: sourceforge or codeplex or googlecode for OSS hosting

[Ted Gould]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 18:17 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 06:13:24PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Sep 15, 2008, at 3:37 PM, "Josh Coffman" <joshcoffman at gmail.com>  
> > wrote:
> > >   Does anyone have an opinion for open source hosting sites?  I  
> > > started (but abandoned) a project on googlecode, and it worked  
> > > fine.  I'm re-doing some open source stuff I work on and want to  
> > > consolidate and relocate it.  Now that codeplex supports subversion  
> > > without installed svnbridge locally, I can consider it. Does anyone  
> > > have experience or opinion about any of these?
> > 
> > I may be slightly bias but I really like Launchpad. The fact that you  
> > get GNU Bazaar hosting instead of SVN is important to me. Plus the bug  
> > tracker is easier to use.
> 
> I had to go read about Bazaar, as I hadn't heard of it before.
> Interesting.

I'll say that once you go DVCS (Distributed VCS) you'll never go back.
There is so much crazy stuff I do now that I wouldn't even think about
doing with something like SVN or *shutter* CVS.

> For the curious about version control, especially distributed version
> control, I found
> http://versioncontrolblog.com/comparison/Arch/Bazaar/Darcs/Mercurial/Monotone/index.html
> to be interesting.

That is interesting, but I'd really say that there are only about two
DVCSes left.  The others are being developed, but their communities are
shrinking.  The two are Bazaar and Git.

Personally I find Bazaar easier to use with more tools, but Git has more
big projects using it (Linux Kernel, X, fd.o, etc.)  Personally, I think
that's more for legacy reasons than technical ones, YMMV.

Full disclosure: I work for Canonical, and we sponsor the development of
Bazaar.  But, I use it for my hobby projects also.

		--Ted

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