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At Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:20:33 -0500, Shaun Ellis wrote: > > > (As a general rule, for every programmer who prefers tool A, and says > > that everybody should use it, there’s a programmer who disparages tool > > A, and advocates tool B. So take what we say with a grain of salt!) > > It doesn't matter what tools you use, as long as you and your team are > able to participate easily, if you want to. But if you want to attract > contributions from a given development community, then choices should > be balanced between the preferences of that community and what best > serve the project. It does matter what tools you use, which is why people are so passionate about them. But I agree completely that you need to balance the preferences of the community. > From what I've been hearing, I think there is a lot of confusion > about GitHub. Heck, I am constantly learning about new GitHub > features, APIs, and best practices myself. But I find it to be an > incredibly powerful platform for moving open source, distributed > software development forward. I am not telling anyone to use GitHub > if they don't want to, but I want to dispel a few myths I've heard > recently: It’s not confusion; and these aren’t “myths”: they are disagreements. best, Erik