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Re: [Ietf-and-github] Éric Vyncke's Abstain on draft-ietf-git-using-github-05: (with COMMENT)

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Wed, 11 March 2020 12:16 UTC

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:02 PM Éric Vyncke via Datatracker <
noreply@ietf.org> wrote:

>
> Is there a reason why "GitHub" is used rather than simply "Git" or similar
> system ? At least, it is explicit to be the commercial web site "
> github.com".
> Alternatives such as GitLab and BitBucket are only briefly mentioned.
>

The document is not about "Git" because the interesting parts are the web
services built around that version control system (issues, PRs, interactive
diffs, etc). There are competing services, but it would be difficult to
talk about them as a group without requiring them to be undifferentiated.


Section 1.3 has an amazing-to-my-eyes sentences "This document concentrates
> primarily on GitHub as it has a large and active community of
> contributors.  As
> a result, some content might not be applicable to other similar
> services.". In
> my opinion, if the same reasoning was applied to other topics, the Internet
> will become centralized into popular applications without innovation.
>

IETF tools for producing documents are pretty specialized. I don't think
they've ever escaped on to the general Internet, except in cases where
other SDOs copy them.

thanks,
Rob

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