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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by Catbert59 »

notpushkin wrote: post #37
Catbert59 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitLab is great - but super fat. The performance will suffer heavily if you don't give it the resources it wants (all RAM you can find, lol). If you only need Git plus project tracking Gitea is super mature. It runs happily on small VPS.

Gitea is neat, and the Actions compatibility is promising. Though I’d suggest a fork, Forgejo: https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

Thank you for the recommendation.

Will move to that fork in one of my future private infrastructure reconstructions.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by mdaniel »

kstrauser wrote: post #41
Catbert59 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitLab is great - but super fat. The performance will suffer heavily if you don't give it the resources it wants (all RAM you can find, lol). If you only need Git plus project tracking Gitea is super mature. It runs happily on small VPS.

I prefer Forgejo, but both it and Gitea support actions like GitHub's. You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free. I adore it for personal projects.

> Gitea support actions like GitHub's

Citation needed. nektos/act is for sure not "like GitHub's"

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by OptionOfT »

I feel that GitHub has gotten worse lately.

* Actions are more finicky, both private (paid) and public, they crash and hang more.

* Publishing changes without testing them: https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2106

* 5+ second loads on the GitHub mobile app

* AI buttons everywhere (Your administrator can pay for CoPilot)

* Releasing Node24, completely skipping Node22 in their actions: https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/tag/v2.327.1

One of the most disgusting features that they did build is the ability for administrators to check how often a user accepts the CoPilot suggestions.

I was about to complain that they still don't have YAML anchors, but it seems that that was merged in 7 days ago: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182#issuecomment-3...

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by uncircle »

reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

“Really good” under which metric? Because it is slow, even more confusing after the terrible sidebar redesign and, to quote a famous author, its usage does not spark any joy.

Codeberg and gitea, on the other hand, feel great, like early Github. Fast and simple, instead of a product that’s adding feature on top of half-baked feature to capture the sweet corporate $$$.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by dcchambers »

brownriceowl wrote: post #42
dcchambers wrote: post #7

> GitHub moving into Core AI team On the one hand, this probably means it gets the funding it needs to keep going strong. On the other hand, I'm worried that this means that GitHub is going to focus exclusively on building AI features while the core product becomes stale/abandoned.

Did GitHub have a funding problem? They doubled revenue last year, with 40% of that coming from GitHub Copilot. I imagine that for 2025, the increase will be much higher than even that. I expect that the problem that Microsoft aims to fix is that people can use GitHub effortlessly without locking into Azure and Power Platform

> Did GitHub have a funding problem?

I don't believe so, and I didn't mean to imply that. Rather just that if they are part of the "Core AI" org then they will likely remain a priority area of investment for Microsoft...right now anyway.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by mdaniel »

moffkalast wrote: post #45
reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

Gitlab is like the SAP of git, something for bloated big corporations. I've never seen a single FOSS repo there.

Yeah, who's ever heard of this weird company named nvidia https://gitlab.com/nvidia>, or inkscape https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape>, or F-Droid https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient>
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