One of greatest attractions of GitHub is the community and the tooling that allows this community to share code. Each contributor can clone the repository, make their changes and then send you a pull request. As the project maintainer your job is now a whole lot easier and more manageable. No more patch files to worry about.
Follow the recipe bellow to move your SVN repo to Git.
Best of all, you get to keep the entire commit history of your project.
With the new year starting, I decided to try some changes here at samaxes.com.
First, I’ve changed the blog theme to a slightly modified Derek Punsalan’s Grid Focus.
Some of these modifications were mostly due to some complains about the size of the content column versus the sidebars columns on the previous theme. Since this is mainly a technical blog it makes it easily on the eye to have a wider content column.
Microsoft has created Code Gallery.
Code Gallery is a place for projects sharing, created to demonstrate .NET key features with a primary focus on C#.…
Microsoft announced today the release of the .NET Framework source code under the Microsoft Reference License.
Find more at Open Source: The .NET Framework.…
It’s finally here as you can see in Free and Open Source Java.
The key behind moving to the GPL is to drive more volume and more adoption for the platform. The GPL helps get Java into some markets that it hasn’t served as fully as it should - such as educational markets, governments in the developing world, and some commercial customers - as well as, obviously, some distributions of Linux which insist not on Linux-friendly licenses but on actual GPL licensing.…
In HOWTO: Pick an open source license (part one), Ed Burnette gives us a simple step-by-step approach for choosing an open source license. It covers such concerns as: control over usage, use in closed-source environments, reciprocal code contributions, and monetary concerns.
Here is a resume of what you can find in the article:
Do you want to relinquish any control over how your code is used and distributed? NO: put it in public domain and you’re done, don’t copyright it, and don’t license it “public domain” is is not a good choice because in many jurisdictions you can’t give up your copyright.…
Sun Microsystems is planning to release the source code of the Java programming language, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
It’s not a question of whether we’ll open source Java, the question is how
Schwartz told delegates in his opening keynote at the tradeshow.…
Microsoft has launched a Web site to share the activities of its internal Linux laboratories, an effort to sample feedback from customers who combine Microsoft and open-source software.
The Web site is called Port 25 and can be found here.…