Why use Git and GitHub? What are some management alternatives?

Day 10 Session 02 slot 04

Why git and GitHub?

• GitHub is the largest code development social media.
• Git is popular (on its own merit) (distributed VCS)

Alternative VCSes

Other alternative VCSes:

• Distributed:
  • Mercurial (hg)
  • Darcs
• Centralised:
  • Subversion (svn)

Alternatives to GitHub

Some are self-hosting only:

• Gitlab
• Gitea and Gogs
• Launchpad
• Gitolite
• Trac (oldish)
• Bitbucket

Management alternatives

For different types of management there could be one or more viable alternatives.

Project level

• Nextcloud
  • Storage built for sharing (i.e. without spying)
  • Common editing
    • Documents (based on LibreOffice technology) (like Google docs, Office 365)
    • Decks (like Trello)
    • Polls (like Doodle)

      Issue tracking

• Gitlab
• Jira
• Bugzilla

Code focused

CI

• Gitlab
• Jenkins
• GoCD
• Bamboo (for those that use Jira)
• TeamCity

Code review

• Gerrit

Translations

• Transifex
• Weblate