On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Jan Stolarek
Exactly. This allows to use and develop these packages independently of lambdabot and I consider that a Good Thing. I'm also much in favor of using git, because github allows easy collaboration between community members.
It may be a good thing, but speaking as the de facto maintainer of lambdabot for the past few years, it's a very small good thing and the goodness may be outweighed by the costs of switching: hardly anyone ever sends in patches for lambdabot proper, and even fewer for those add-on runtime dependencies. I am reminded of a recent incident on the XMonad mailing list: an enthusiastic young member proposed changing the entire infrastructure to Github because Github is the new hotness and it would surely promote easy collaboration between community members and so on and so forth. He put in a bunch of work in making copies and converting repos etc, and... nothing happened. His effort was wasted. Turns out the reason for people not submitting patches had more to do with things besides not being hosted on Github. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net