On: OpenJDK is now on GitHub

[chrisseaton]

It has its trade-offs I guess.

But I think people are forgetting what a nightmare it was before websites such as GitHub.

Just browsing the source of open source projects used to be a terrible experience. Let alone the issue trackers - Bugzilla!

I'll take unfortunate centralisation over source code browsing like https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/ and pull requests like https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ngasson/8251923/webrev.1/.

And the issue trackers, which is what most people complain about on GitHub, weren't distributed before, so we haven't lost anything there.

[aardvark179 → chrisseaton]

In some ways I think it’s a pity that none of the attempts to store issues in the git repo itself have taken off. It would be an interesting world where the state of a bug was tied to the state of the source.

[nytgop77 → aardvark179]

not in git, but relevant: vcs with issue tracker built in. Fossil.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki