This might be premature (I'd certainly hate for someone to quickly do this and screw me over), but what would the HN community's reaction be to a new open-source project, offered as both a free site with subscriptions as well as locally installable on a server of your choice, with support for all the major version control systems (SVN, git, mercurial, bazaar), essentially like a cross between GitHub and 37signals' products, and wasn't just a clone of the GitHub/BitBucket formula?
Because I'm kind of far into development, and I'd definitely like some conceptual feedback / criticism / words of encouragement that my work won't be for naught. It could be that GitHub is too entrenched at this point, but I'm willing to take that gamble.
There've been approximately 50 million of these over the years; it's a commodity.
Really, if you're looking at open source, I'd recommend joining an existing project that you find interesting. Nothing prevents you from making a site based on such a project, and they might even like the exposure it gets them.
I had considered that back when I started it. Initially I was just going to develop more into Redmine and build it out into a central site, as it was really the only suitable candidate for something like this. The internals clashed a lot with my vision of what I wanted to do, so I made a decision to forgo using it outright, and just developing beyond it, referencing it purely for inspiration.
SCM/Project Management is very saturated at this point, and that's really my only worry.
I read about BitBucket in passing, but I might look into them now too. Imitation works for me.
I'm becoming frustrated with Github. Do any links to github from google work? I'm tired of cleaning up old blog posts with links to Github. Github has the most beautiful 404 page. Geez, I wonder why. Github's site and issue search are practically useless. Github feels like it's built on a house of cards.
I went from SourceForge -> Google Code -> Github -> what's next?
In my case, I recently just put a repo on my own site. I access it over ssh, and it's visible over http using gitweb. Works fine for my hobby projects, and it's under my own control.
This is old, and got the author -- deservingly -- yelled at for having the gall to assume Github had invented the standard UI used by every source-code/project-management site in history.
I guess in the same vein, HN isn't really a community either since graphing it against Reddit or 4Chan would produce similar results.
You will also be joining a site run by a team that is innovative and honest, rather than one that unapologetically plagiarizes that team when they see something they like.
Actually I think I prefer to join a site that works with Mercurial since that's what I use.
... why is this being reposted? It's old, really old, like 2 years old (or 317 internet years). Scott apologized, took down the original (this is someones backup of it), he and Jesper made up, drank some scotch (or maybe it was whiskey), and all was well with the world. In the meantime someone else apparently had nothing better to do than repost this to fan some flames, because we apparently can't have different services without hating each other.
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Because I'm kind of far into development, and I'd definitely like some conceptual feedback / criticism / words of encouragement that my work won't be for naught. It could be that GitHub is too entrenched at this point, but I'm willing to take that gamble.
Really, if you're looking at open source, I'd recommend joining an existing project that you find interesting. Nothing prevents you from making a site based on such a project, and they might even like the exposure it gets them.
SCM/Project Management is very saturated at this point, and that's really my only worry.
Email me if you'd like some company in Alpha-land.
Edit: When was this thing actually posted? The ego-stroking Google Trends chart at the bottom cuts off at the end of 2008.
I'm becoming frustrated with Github. Do any links to github from google work? I'm tired of cleaning up old blog posts with links to Github. Github has the most beautiful 404 page. Geez, I wonder why. Github's site and issue search are practically useless. Github feels like it's built on a house of cards.
I went from SourceForge -> Google Code -> Github -> what's next?
(see the fork me on github link)
I have no idea who submitted that here.
I guess in the same vein, HN isn't really a community either since graphing it against Reddit or 4Chan would produce similar results.
You will also be joining a site run by a team that is innovative and honest, rather than one that unapologetically plagiarizes that team when they see something they like.
Actually I think I prefer to join a site that works with Mercurial since that's what I use.