On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:25:48PM -0500, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
Nicolas Cellier wrote
github is the key. It's the social thing.
+1. Things like issue/commit linking, and the ability to discuss changes inline in the diff are powerful (and fun). For me the game changer was one-click forking???
Old workflow: find an awesome - but abandoned - library. Have a small fix that makes it work again. But no access to mcz repo :/ Start a days?weeks?months?-long hunt for the maintainer. Ultimately realize that they have left the community and???
New workflow: Click "Fork" and happily continue coding. Bonus points for clicking "New Pull Request" so the original project can merge if interested.
Thanks Sean, that is a very good explanation :-)
Dave