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<% @page_title = "About" -%> |
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<a name="about"></a><h1>About Gitorious</h1> |
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<p><strong><a href="/p/gitorious">Gitorious</a> aims to provide a great way of doing distributed opensource |
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code collaboration</strong></p> |
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<h2>The idea</h2> |
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<p>Traditional code- and project forges offer many great things and has without |
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a question helped developers of open source software. However, there's always |
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the issue of long-term maintainability; as humans we always get distracted, |
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busy and or just plain tired of working with things in the long run.</p> |
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<p>Distributed version control provides a way around this by making everyones |
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copy a full repository, so if people like someone elses stuff better, or |
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that someone else is actively maintaining the project they can just pull from |
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that person instead of the "official" repository. And if the project |
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maintainer decides to, he can pull those changes into his mainline branch. |
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That's what makes open source great.</p> |
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<p><strong><a href="/p/gitorious">Gitorious</a></strong> provides a |
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way of keeping track of these clones easily by:</p> |
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<li>Seeing what they're doing</li> |
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<li>Knowing where they can be found</li> |
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<li>Allowing anyone to contribute without being blessed with "commit bits"</li> |
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<li>Making it easier for maintainers to accept contributions</li> |
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</ul> |
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<p>Gitorious is still under development and there's many many more things I'd like |
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to do with it. If you have ideas for improvements or technical issues please |
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do stop by the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gitorious">discussion group</a>.</p> |
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<p> |
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Regards,<br /> |
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<a href="/users/johan">Johan Sørensen</a><br /> |
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<small>Gitorious.org maintainer</small> |
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<a name="contact"></a><h1>Contact Info</h1> |
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If you experience any technical issues feel free to |
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<a href="mailto:johan@johansorensen.com">send an email</a>, there's also the |
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<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gitorious">discussion group</a> for more |
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general Gitorious discussions around Gitorious. There's also the |
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<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/gitorious"><code>#gitorious</code></a> IRC |
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channel on FreeNode. |
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</p> |
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<% content_for :sidebar do -%> |
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<ul class="links"> |
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<li><a href="#about">About</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li> |
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<li><%= link_to "FAQ", faq_path -%></li> |
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</ul> |
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<% end -%> |
