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Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by taf2 »

untog wrote: post #46
oneplane wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is it or is it just the embrace stage of embrace, extend, extinguish?

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by simcop2387 »

zzzeek wrote: post #93
simcop2387 wrote: post #71

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The fork happened years ago because Gogs was (not entirely sure of current status) managed by a single person who would disappear on the regular, leaving fixes and other things not merged for weeks. So it got forked by people who were contributing to Gogs, and I think that ended up pushing Gogs into more active development. Now the two projects are still very similar but diverged enough to have some important differe…

oauth is a total no-brainer feature add. Years ago I abandoned Trac because I couldn't deal w/ the spam user accounts and oauth integration w/ github wasn't really a thing back then. gogs should really add this though already gitea seems like that's where this particular community has gone.

gitea somewhat recently also added support for some 2fa stuff too. I haven't played with it yet but it seems like auth is being taken seriously there.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by skinnymuch »

mastrsushi wrote: post #85

Is everyone really leaving GitHub, or is this just like 2013 when everyone "left" Google for DuckDuckGo. This is pretty bad personally, I'm writing a webcrawler for the site. I plan on making it cross-website anyway, but it kinda sucks hearing this.

It does not appear to be the case that a ton of people are leaving GitHub. Gitlab is mentioned far and away more than all other alternatives combined and their GitHub importing I think is like ~100K repos imported since the Sunday rumors. A lot but nothing compared to the tens of millions of repos GitHub has overall.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by cosmojg »

funwie wrote: post #96

If it is an alternative then it is probably not the best option. You and I use Github not because we don’t know the alternatives, but because Github is better

That isn't true. As with most online services, people use Github over alternatives because of the network effect. It's where everyone goes because it's where everyone is.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

#146

Post by squarefoot »

untog wrote: post #46
oneplane wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It would be vital to know what made MS change their stance against Open Source in general and Linux in particular; if it was "we can't beat them directly, so let's destroy them by faking an alliance, possibly gaining also control from the inside" (hint: Linux Foundation platinum membership) then we still have every reason to remain skeptic.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

#147

Post by vxNsr »

brightball wrote: post #98
alkonaut wrote: post #81

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Kill Atom was the most reasonable fear I heard. And I can’t see how that wouldn’t be a well founded fear. If I was Microsoft I wouldn’t want to keep paying devs to make two so similar products (atom, code). They are much more similar than e.g code/vs or github/vsts. But even so: I agree the fear that the product will be worse in a few feels completely irrational. What I can agree with is that it’s unfortunate that it…

Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a major blow.

And by far the most unfounded fear. As others have said MS has tons of their own apps using electron, to kill it would be to shoot themselves in both arms.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by dragonsh »

bmsleight_ wrote: post #92

I 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

Please look at: https://kallitgea-scm.org http://fossil-scm.org Both eat their own dog food.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

#149

Post by atomi »

nerdponx wrote: post #140
captaincrowbar wrote: post #130

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"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.

This isn't a social network. There's more to a source code hosting platform than popularity.

For me it's the ability to self host on cheap hardware. For that Gogs gets my support.
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