Re: [boost] [infrastructure] The vault vs. project hosting vs. Boost hosting?

Subject: Re: [boost] [infrastructure] The vault vs. project hosting vs. Boost hosting?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-18 21:24:17

on Mon Jul 18 2011, Thomas Heller <thom.heller-AT-googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, July 17, 2011 03:05:40 PM Rene Rivera wrote:
>> On 7/17/2011 11:48 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> > on Sat Jul 16 2011, Rene Rivera<grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com>  wrote:
>> > The priority should be on convenience for reviewers rather than for
>> > submitters, as there are hopefully many more of the former than the
>> > latter.  As a reviewer, I really want to be able to review all of the
>> > code and documentation on the web.  I'd also like the source to be
>> > presented in a SCM repository to ease integration of review commentary,
>> > etc.  For me, this all points toward using a public repo hosting
>> > service like GitHub.
>> 
>> +1; In a dream world there would be a project hosting service that would
>> allow many types of SCM clients to get the code regardless of what the
>> author used to put the code in with.
>
> FWIW, github lets you checkout and commit through svn:
> https://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support
> and
> https://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that!  That alone is enough to make me
comfortable with GitHub as a solution.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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