Re: git-scm.com

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2008, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <F3D70DCD-E9A9-42C3-8870-ABB7EECF83CC@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <d411cc4a0807252230v76670d3cp2205e40826acc6e2@mail.gmail.com>

El 26/7/2008, a las 7:30, Scott Chacon escribió:

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> However, that being said, it's going to be difficult to have Github
> projects not dominate the list a bit.  The fact is that it hosts far,
> far more projects than any other single hosting service.  Just in
> fully public projects, the current stats (from the website pages) are
> something like this:
>
> kernel.org : 475
> repo.or.cz : 1,553
> gitorious   : 780
> github       : 10,560
>
> It hosts far more than that if you include private projects, too.  So,
> if we want to choose totally randomly, it's going to be at least a 5:1
> ratio between github projects and all other public hosting providers.

I think those numbers are pretty meaningless seeing as GitHub encourages people to publish "forks" of other projects. Rails, for example, has about 270 forks at the time of writing. If I scan the list of popular projects I see fork counts like 129, 105, 78 and 78 (again). Are all the forks counted in that figure of 10,560 that you count? How many "real" projects are hosted there?

I'd like to see the "official" Git homepage as distanced as possible from GitHub. They've taken Git (free as in speech, free as in beer) and built a closed-source commercial product on top of it -- curiously for something which you can do for free yourself anyway -- and as far as I can tell from observing this mailing list and watching the commits going into git.git, haven't ever contributed _anything_ back to the community. At least within the niche that is the Ruby/Rails community, GitHub has basically done a hijack job and managed to become synonymous with Git, supplanting it, and it's a trend that I wouldn't like to see continue.

Just my personal opinion, but GitHub doesn't provoke any warm fuzzy feelings here. Quite the contrary. I actively dislike it.

Cheers, Wincent