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What about the sadly underutilized LIS Stack Exchange site? I think it would be great for organizing answers to the kind of questions that come up here and making the responses findable later, plus a lot of us probably already have accounts on Stack Overflow. http://libraries.stackexchange.com/ Emily On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 12/4/2012 12:10 PM, MJ Ray wrote: > > Really? I hoped if I wanted to do serious hacking, I could clone it on >> git.software.coop and send a pull request. If you use github *and >> insist everyone else does* then you lose all the decentralised networked >> collaboration benefits of git and it becomes a worse-and-better CVS. >> > > A "pull request" is a feature of github.com. There is no feature of > git-the-software called "a pull request". > > Which of course doens't stop you from sending an email requesting a pull. > A "pull", including from decentralized third party repos, is a feature of > git. > > But yes, if you get used to the features of a particular free service, you > get locked into that particular free service. > > This is certainly part of the overall cost/benefit of using free hosted > services. >