Howdy 🙂

it’s 10PM once again, and I’ve decided to restart posting. Really it’s been really hard to focus energy into posting content. Let’s see how it goes. I was planning a deep analysis into many different services and their offerings, guided by this wikipedia entry, but, as a colleague once said: “who DOESN’T use GitHub nowadays”?

I love Free and Open Source Software and advocate its use, but I don’t really care if the host I’m using holds proprietary software. I work in a closed-source business company (in fact, we use plenty Open Source software to produce our proprietary products), and I don’t think every software MUST be free, but COULD, with a different business model.

I’d like to have a defect control system with it (such as Bugzilla) and I’d love to have my projects featuring a nice front page introduction, perhaps even some examples of its use. A wiki system would also be nice, but I could live without it. I don’t need a build system, mailing lists or forums for my projects. There are also lots of alternatives for team management, so I don’t need it (especially on single-man projects such as mine).

So, not only GitHub matches my needs, but also Sourceforge, Google Code (without web-page hosting), Launchpad (without web and wiki), JavaForge, GNU Savannah and some other less known choices. But, it’s friends’ good experience with it that guides my choice this time, and I can always change if there’s a better solution. 🙂

To GitHub!