The source code in a git repository

Hi List,
Hello Charles,

git, the distributed source code management system, did win the Source
Code Management trophy. I would like to see that getmail source
also goes to a git repository. And I would like to see that Charles
keeps avoiding 3rd-party sites.

To reach both goals I'm pitching two solutions for plain git service.

cgit, https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/
in use example https://git.lekensteyn.nl

klaus, https://github.com/jonashaag/klaus
in use example https://www.jelmer.uk/code/xandikos/





Cheers
Geert Stappers



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: rpuntaie/getmail to getmail6/getmail6
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:51:51 +0200
From: Best Intentions
To: Geert Stappers <[email protected]>

On Sun 20Jul19 12:16, Geert Stappers wrote:
>To support avoiding 3rd-party sites  did I prepare a patch against5.14
>that brings it to 6.1.   But that patch was to big for the mailinglist.
I think the big advantage of a code repository everybody can access
is to reduce communication effort by letting everybody see what is going
on first hand.
Parallel work on the repo does not need (much) coordination any more,
as it has good serialization via the fork and pull request mechanism.
Sending patches around is not needed any more.
A distributed VCS like git does automate exactly that:
no need for manually creating, sending and applying patches any more.