On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Daniel Herring <dherring@tentpost.com>wrote:

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Liam Healy wrote:

The CFFI web page http://common-lisp.net/**project/cffi/<http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/>points to the git repository

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http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?**p=projects/cffi/cffi.git<http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/cffi/cffi.git>, but that is no longer the official git repository for CFFI, it is on github now. The cl.net repo is severely out of date (master looks OK, but the fsbv branch is ancient and libffi doesn't even show). The web page should point to github, and the cl.net repo should either be deleted or synced up with github.

Would it be possible for you to get push access to cl.net, rather than having the rest of us start following a different repository?

I do have an account on cl.net, so if the CFFI maintainers want to set it up this way, I can certainly push to cl.net; it makes no difference to me. I was stating what I understand to be an official decision about using github, which happened some time ago. The rest of your message arguing about whether or not github is a good idea is not for me to weigh in on; that is for Luis and the other maintainers of CFFI to address. I was just pointing out the unsynchronized nature of the repositories and lack of consistency in what people see.

I understand Zach's post recommending Github; but unfortunately Github encourages a fractured community, leading to messages like yours (hey everybody, look over here) and almost caracitured by Cyrus.

http://cyrusharmon.org/blog/**display?id=121<http://cyrusharmon.org/blog/display?id=121>

Installing gitolite on cl.net would make git hosting much easier for end users to manage. Keeping everything in one place, where trusted admins can add and remove users, should be more conducive to community development.

Imagine if SBCL changed repositories or even websites depending on whether Christophe or Juho was rolling the release... Stability and predictability are virtues.

- Daniel