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Alexander Berntsen posted on Mon, 13 May 2013 14:42:58 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On 13/05/13 14:38, Greg KH wrote: |
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[ Reinserting original quote of Alexander Berntsen ] |
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>>> A lot of projects (including Linux) just use GitHub for hosting |
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>>> and nothing else. |
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>> Linux does not use GitHub for anything, but a lot of users do use the |
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>> copy of the kernel tree on GitHub for their own development, which has |
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>> nothing to do with the main Linux kernel developer workflow. |
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> I misremembered a discussion Linus had in which he said GitHub was great |
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> for hosting (but terrible for stuff like commit messages). Thanks for |
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> correcting me. |
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> My point about using GitHub for hosting only still stands. |
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Greg KH, like I originally did, may have taken the original quote with |
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quite a different meaning than you intended. I originally parsed the |
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quote as: |
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Linux uses nothing else but github |
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... when you apparently meant... |
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Linux uses github (purely) for hosting (that is as a mirror), not for |
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anything other functions. |
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I was /this/ close <fingers held close together> to posting an objection, |
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when from reading the replies I realized the latter meaning was |
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apparently intended, not the former. It would appear that Greg KH parsed |
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the former meaning as well, and replied as I /almost/ did. |
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It's probably good to clear up the possible misunderstanding either way, |
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tho, lest any rumors get started about "the next bitkeeper" and having a |
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big-name kernel guy refuting that is about the best way possible to do so. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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