[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
>>> A better metric might be finding somebody who offers a selection of VCS 
>>> protocols (possibly with a common backend- I believe such things exist?) 
>>> and then looking at the relative use for checkouts etc.
>> You can start by looking at the following Wikipedia page
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source_code_software_hosting_facilities
>>
>> See the "Popularity" section. GitHub sits and 19.8mil projects.
> 
> If you look on the github referenced page, its repositories, not projects.
> The translation to projects is wikipedias own.
> 
> The fact that github+gitlab  projects >people and by others the other way
> around should ring a bell.
> 
> I get the feeling these stats are meaningless because github has a large 
> excess of personal repositories that skews stats, while sf was more
> collaboration oriented.

Also it's still based on what's being offered, not on what users would 
adopt if it were available.

Now it might be that git is inherently more secure than svn etc.- I 
don't mean more resilient when it comes to rolling back mischief, I mean 
*SECURE* as in "there's no buffer overflows or certificate weaknesses". 
Obviously that sort of thing would make it more attractive from the POV 
of somebody building a business around it, but so far I see nobody 
arguing that point and fewer people providing uncontestable evidence :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]