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what’s the primary reason for wireshark not being hosted on github

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when it's free -- https://github.com/plans
and the UI is far superior -- http://marmoush.com/2011/10/04/sourceforge-vs-github-2011/
and when it's leading -- http://sourceforge.net/blog/github-collaboration-and-haters/

asked 15 May '12, 23:12

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edited 15 May '12, 23:19

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Because Wireshark has used svn since the projects start, and has a lot of infrastructure built around that.

Trials are underway with a git mirror of the svn repo, but AFAIK it isn't bidirectional yet. See the Developers page on the website here.

answered 15 May '12, 23:45

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edited 15 May '12, 23:49

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Note also that GitHub is free, but not free/open source software.

answered 22 Feb '14, 11:32

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