No, you can get an RSS feed anonymously, and you can put up a clone on your own web server if you’d like to avoid github altogether (except as a remote).

I am a newby to Git and GitHub, so I could be way off, but it doesn’t seem that users of Sparkle would be put off by the use of Git. It would seem that even possible maintainers would not have to use GitHub’s interface if they don’t want to.

I do see a possible issue in picking a DVCS that isn’t in use by many of your possible committers and users though. Especially considering Bazaar 1.4 doesn’t seem to be easy to get going on OS X this second.

Another site you might want to consider is unfuddle as they now have git support. Not sure if you have looked at them at all.

I’m hearing a lot of “but Git is neat and not as hard as you think,” which is cool, but if Git is easy, Bazaar is even easier. And LaunchPad has more features and is unified.

I guess my point is that I’m a lot more concerned about the GitHub+Lighthouse vs. LaunchPad part than the Git vs. Bazaar part. Any thoughts on that?

Note that git does have reasonably friendly revision numbers as long as you’ve tagged a version before (for example: 2.0.2-42-gef07611 — that’s 42 changes past my 2.0.2 release, plus a part of a hash to uniquely identify exactly *which* 42 changes after).

Before git, I was using mercurial, and before that, darcs and gnu arch. bzr seems to have come from gnu arch, but from what I’ve read, it’s much less pleasant to use.

Your post has inspired me to give it a go, but it doesn’t run out of macports for me at the moment.

Overall, any project pulled off of subversion is a win for open source (I’m sure I’ve sent one of those patches you’re complaining about).

I think it might be partly timing. I came to git pretty recently, and it’s a much more usable system now than it had been, or so I’m told.