[rescue] Has freshmeat.net disappeared forever?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 01:04:40PM -0600, Richard wrote:
> In article <20140624185517.GA20513 at zoho.com>,
>     microcode at zoho.com writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:35:08PM -0600, Richard wrote:
> > > In article <20140623062956.GA8562 at zoho.com>,
> > >     microcode at zoho.com writes:
> > > 
> > > > [...] And agreed, sourceforge has gone from bad to worse.
> > > 
> > > Basically, everyone doing new stuff puts it on github and many people
> > > (like me) are migrating to github.
> > 
> > Isn't that only for source that is hosted in git?
> 
> Yes, you have to use git, but there are many ways to interoperate with
> other version control systems.

With github, you don't have to use git.  You can also use mercurial
and svn.  For mercurial, you need the hg-git plugin for your local hg
install, and for svn see:
https://github.com/blog/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-subversion

> Moving to github vastly increases the chance that other people will
> contribute to your project, whether they are small or big
> contributions.

I would agree with that.