Move part of macports infrastructure to GitHub

David Röthlisberger david at rothlis.net
Tue Mar 25 03:28:03 PDT 2014


> I want to start this discussion mainly about ports tree, but actually base and some other stuff could use github and infra around it as well. I understand this is not so easy and may be you already discussed it and may be already decided not to do, but there are huge pros:
> 
> * git >> svn
> * pull requests are awesome! No need to poke around with patch files attached to tickets
> * nice UI, tools and infra around

FWIW, the D programming language reports a 10-fold increase in contributions
after moving their source to Github:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/iv4pp8$2td5$1@digitalmars.com#post-iv524m:2498r:241:40digitalmars.com

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