Re: [hatari-devel] Git commits (was: HDC code update patch)

[Christian Zietz <czietz@xxxxxxx>]

Uwe Seimet schrieb:

> Using github or gitlab would help with this, and it would also make the
> current status, the road to the next release, and the PRs involved more
> transparent. And you can create tickets and follow their progress, which is
> much more convenient than reporting bugs by email.
> The more I write, the more I notice how many useful features I am missing ;-).

I'll let the Hatari maintainers speak for themselves w.r.t. to such a
migration. As a user (and sometimes contributor), I would indeed not
mind if they moved to GitHub, GitLab, etc. [1] because there are other
things that I don't particularly like about the web interface at
tuxfamily.org.

However, for contributions I don't see much of a difference between
doing a few clicks to start a PR on GitHub et al. vs. doing a few clicks
to attached readily formatted patches to an email sent to the list. But
I'm fully aware that this is largely a matter of personal taste. In the
end, it should be the workflow the maintainers and the majority of
contributors feels the most comfortable with.

> git simply has too many options ;-).

Here I could not agree more. Unfortunately, git (the command line
client, not the system itself) is not exactly a prime example of a
well-architected SW.

Regards
Christian

[1] Even though moving to a more "commercial" service has its risks.
FreeMiNT and EmuTOS maintainers might remember the Travis CI debacle.
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