I'm surprised by the lack of choices that are free non-self hosted
https://notabug.org/ is a hosted gogs fork.
GitHub Alternatives
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Re: GitHub Alternatives
#42git-ssb, open source and decentralized: https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25RPKzL382v2fAia5HuDNHD5kkFdlP7bG...
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
gitlab is on fire https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer?orgI...
From the imported projects graph, looks like there was a spike, then it settled back to normal.
Normal only because the scale of the graph is totally skewed right now. Looking at actual values, it looks like they're currently at ~2400 projects imported per measuring increment, up from <100 per increment before the Microsoft rumours first popped up, and down from 24k in the big spike.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#44There is also Gitea: https://gitea.io
Is Gitea only self-hosted? Does anyone offer hosted Gitea?
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#45Why are people jumping ship to lower quality services ? And I'm talking about unrecognizable brand names, because at least migrating to Gitlab or Bitbucket may be understandable in a way, but still an exageration in my opinion.
I wouldn't say that they are low quality, but what really puzzles me is the timing of the switch, linked to a market event, which has no policy or technical consequences.
I had no problems working with MS products since DOS 5.0/Win 3.1 and never had any technical or privacy issues while using them as the tools that allow me to live normal life and do my job efficiently. GH is convenient and perfectly matches my needs (I'm hosting there few personal open-source projects and private repositories), so what's the point in moving anywhere?
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#46"A couple of years ago Microsoft was anti-open-source." The quote is from 2001 as is Ballmer's quote. Closing the article due to its lack of objectivity.
Fixing an imago set by a guy calling open-source and Linux 'a cancer' is really hard. The last few years of changes doesn't magically wipe away that bitter taste, and the last 10-20 years doesn't magically make you forget the past.
It's an interesting debate though. If the CEO and most of the major execs of a company have left, is it really worthwhile to factor statements made 17 years ago into your decision making process?
Don't get me wrong, many will avoid MS-anything to punish them for their past conduct, which is a fair personal decision. But if you're trying to evaluate what MS will do in the future, I'm not sure how relevant 2001 is.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#47This is equivalent to a knee-jerk reaction clearly following the MS purchase of Github. The Microsoft of today is vastly different. Example: I'm using VSCode on my Mac right now and it clearly is a better alternative to something like Atom and its open source. My best friend is the head of the bash initiative at MS as well and I pretty much hated MS before. Now its pretty cool so doesn't seem like a rational view anymore to be MS negative.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#48Here's a good comparison page of the three big ones.
https://stackshare.io/stackups/gitlab-vs-github-vs-bitbucket
Gitlab seems to be picking up the pace and gaining mindshare among developers.
Freelancers I'm curious, would you switch and lose your repos' stars, PRs, fork counts? Those are actually a good marketing tool for potential customers since they see you are legitimate.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve Ballmer is no longer CEO. Companies are run by people - they are not people.
And what makes you think 1) company culture is no longer a thing and 2) that microsoft won't swing back towards being openly hostile or worse, 'secretly hostile' towards open source software when someone else is at the healm? I hope time will prove me wrong, but this acquisition is literally the 'embrace' phase of E3. Next comes the 'extend'.
Microsoft has shown themselves to be very pro-open-source in the last 5+ years. Just look at things like VS Code. Microsoft is just the Nickelback of software, its cool to hate on them for no real reason (any more).
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#50Honest question: Besides more traction among the open source community, where do you feel GitHub is stronger than GitLab? I’m not affiliated with GitLab, however a little biased because we’re using GitLab instead of GitHub at our company. Feature-wise, It seems to me that GitLab is running circles around GitHub. Curious about other opinions.
GitLab is definitely slower. But the bigger problem for me is simply that the UI is unfamiliar. I'm honestly not sure if it's worse, it's just that I'm very used to Github by now. It's a bit "rock and hard place" for GitLab as I imagine they don't want to just carbon copy Github.