[Systers-dev] Fwd: [Mailman-Users] [Mailman-Developers] openID enabled mailman

[Jennifer Redman]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Sarah Mei <sarahmei at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've used both. The feature sets are approximately the same, though
> Launchpad has some features I don't use (translations?) that Github
> doesn't have. Github is more code- and developer-focused. The UI is
> clean and efficient, and doesn't get in my way. The code browser is
> marvelous. One click to favorite, fork, or download a project.
> Launchpad's UI feels a little clunky to me in comparison.
>
> Github - 120,000 projects. Launchpad - 12,000 projects. Github has
> seen massive uptake in the Ruby community. I am actually amazed at how
> fast it's happened. A Ruby project that doesn't at least have a mirror
> on Github is effectively abandoned.
>
> Github hosts other stuff besides Ruby. Here's an interesting page
> showing how much code in different languages is on Github:
> http://github.com/languages
> That's the number of non-fork projects that contain at least some of
> the language. So if a project has both Ruby and perl, each get a +1.
> Interestingly, by number of bytes stored, there's more C than anything
> else:
> http://gist.github.com/118810
>
> Sarah


We are primarily on Launchpad because Mailman is on Launchpad.
 Additionally, the user documentation for bzr is generally much better then
git, and when we started there was no integrated bug-tracking on Github
(still better on Launchpad in addition to more project management/software
release cycle features.)
As a person who regularly uses git, bzr, svn (and unfortunately, more) and
generally doesn't care which is being used as long as it works the best for
the project --  bzr on launchpad is a better choice for the current Systers'
use case.

Jen