the deep integration go has with github in particular seems more ridiculous then ever.
GitHub Alternatives
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Re: GitHub Alternatives
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Indeed it is. Same goes for other prominent figures, like Steve Jobs. People were/are convinced that the whole identity, all products and every choice was Jobs-bound and therefore without Jobs, what Apple does can't be just as good as it was when he was alive and running things. So past CEOs can make a lasting impact, and in many ways it works out badly because the negative comments get the most attention. Where Appl…
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Re: GitHub Alternatives
#123I never imagined in my lifetime Apple would become Microsoft and Microsoft would become Apple. Yet here we are.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'.
Why would they acquire github just to turn on it and run it into the ground? You can do that if your users are locked-in or maybe you have a competing service but neither are the case here; there are numerous alternatives and it's pretty easy to switch, as we are already seeing. If they have anything but good intentions this would be just a giant waste of time/money.
I’m personally worried that they might do it unintentionally. They seem to be very good at mismanaging and fucking up all their mainstream products.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you honestly know anyone in the "open source world" who avoids GNU and Linux?
I've interacted online with some BSD zealots that were so invested in not using Linux they pretend not to know what systemd is and things like that, in order to signal to the rest of the irc channel how plugged in they are to the BSD community. Edit: down voted for answering the question asked? Good grief.
Is this place reddit now?
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#126Enough with this.
Does anyone have any hard evidence that SV Angel, or IVP, or Thrive Capital, or Sequoia Capital, or Andreessen Horowitz (the main investors in GitHub), had more noble intentions, or management style than Microsoft of Nadella?
Github was not a non-profit company. But you were willing to upload your private repo there. And somehow now it is problematic.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#127Enough with this. Does anyone have any hard evidence that SV Angel, or IVP, or Thrive Capital, or Sequoia Capital, or Andreessen Horowitz (the main investors in GitHub), had more noble intentions, or management style than Microsoft of Nadella? Github was not a non-profit company. But you were willing to upload your private repo there. And somehow now it is problematic.
>Enough with this.
As if, Dad.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#128I'm surprised by the lack of choices that are free non-self hosted
Genuinely curious what features of a GitLab or GitHub equivalent you would require in a self-hosted scenario that 'git' doesn't provide?
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was alive when Microsoft was evil and I don't want my stuff to stay in a Microsoft service. I moved my pulic repositories to GitLab today. It's slower and it doesn't looks as nice but it's ok. I self host my private repositories, no need of a third party service for that. By the way, Bitbucket looks a little better than GitLab but its usability is abysmal. I always have troubles finding the things I want in there.
GitLab runs on Microsoft Azure. :)
GitLab was migrating to the Google Cloud Platform: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/
I do not know whether this migration has finished.
More links:
- http://fortune.com/2016/11/14/gitlab-cloud-storage/
- https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abando...
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#130I looked at lot of these alternatives, not many are eating their own dog food. Does not inspire me with confidence. * https://gitea.io/en-US/ The code for gitea is on Github. https://github.com/go-gitea/ * http://gitprep.yukikimoto.com/ The code for gitprep is on Github https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/gitprep * https://gogs.io/ Guess what ..... https://github.com/gogs/gogs
I'd guess that this is more due to the popularity of GitHub among potential contributiors to these projects. I've seen it mentioned many times here on HN that a potential contributor may not want to put in the effort to create an account on another VCS provider or send a patch to a mailing list, whereas submitting a pull request on GitHub is a much less involved process for them, given that they likely already have a…
"I'd guess that this is more due to the popularity of GitHub among potential contributiors to these projects."
Doesn't that support bmsleight's point? If Github is more popular than NotGithub, even among the developers of NotGithub, that doesn't exactly inspire confidence in NotGithub.