Re: Irssi on GitHub

Alex Toumey <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:20:41 -0500
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I think it sounds like a great idea!

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Dwayne Henderson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Wouter Coekaerts <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Some irssi developers are fans of git, and there has been talk about
>> it a long time, but it never happened.
>> I actually was a bit sceptic about "another" move (after the cvs->svn
>> move) at the time.
>> Almost no development is still happening on irssi nowadays, I don't
>> think a move to github is really going to change that. But it wouldn't
>> hurt either.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Wouter.
>>
>
> Hey, thanks for the reply Wouter!
>
> I guess Irssi is kind of like a fully developed nation now - ain't much
> left to do :-)
>
> But yeah, there is the chance that a move to GitHub will appeal to the
> younger generation as well as people who never thought of contributing
> before, but that find IRC an increasingly important medium for working on
> million-dollar-projects or gathering business intelligence.
>
> --Dwayne
>