Re: Where to host former Kenai or java.net OSS projects?

Thank you guys for all your valuable feedbacks. I'll have to decide between
GitHub and BitBucket

;)

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Jarmo Isotalo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Btw, github also supports SVN
> https://help.github.com/articles/support-for-subversion-clients/ and
> apparently they have somesort of hg "support" as well:
> http://hg-git.github.io/
> GitHub also offers free private repos on request, at least I've had good
> luck requesting those but it's not unlimited free repos anyway.
>
> +1 for trying to avoid SourceForge, bc of the bad press (and personal
> preference)
>
> Since both (GitHub and BitBucket) are after all just another git remote
> (no idea about hg) it should be easy to try both and see which suites you
> best (GitHub! :D)
>
> -Jarmo
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Peter Hansson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's BitBucket more than GitHub for me. With BitBucket you can choose
>> between Mercurial and Git. GitHub is only Git.  In my personal opinion
>> Mercurial is superior to Git (they are both very good DVCSs) and possibly
>> the popularity of Git comes much from GitHub rather than from the
>> comparative virtues of Git itself when compared with Mercurial.
>>
>> If you are contributing to projects like NetBeans or the OpenJDK then
>> you'll have to learn Mercurial in any case.
>>
>> BitBucket's commercial model makes it easier for me to work on both OSS
>> and closed-source projects, all hosted on BitBucket. With GitHub I would
>> have to pay a minimum $84 per year for hosting closed-source projects. With
>> BitBucket it is $0.
>>
>> That being said both GitHub and BitBucket are excellent sites. I don't
>> think you'll regret either.
>>
>> I tend to not be willing to contribute to SourceForge projects. I'm
>> pretty sure the are more like me out there.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Since a few years I've moved everything to BitBucket; and recently
>>> converted (almost) everything from Mercurial to Git, so everything can be
>>> also mirrored at GitHub. Mirroring can be done automatically, that is you
>>> just push as usual, and the push happens towards both sites. This article
>>> describes how to do:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14290113/git-pushing-code-to-two-remotes
>>>
>>> I much prefer BitBucket, its UI and its services; but the "double site
>>> approach" makes it possible to have the best of the two worlds. AFAIU
>>> anybody can fork and provide patches on either sites, so in the end you
>>> reach most of possible contributors.
>>>
>>> BitBucket and GitHub also can be easily integrated with things such as
>>> Drone.io, Travis and many others, in the case one doesn't want to manage
>>> its own Jenkins/Hudson.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s.
>>> "We make Java work. Everywhere."
>>> http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog - [email protected]
>>>
>>
>>
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