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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by internetter »

Aeolun wrote: post #199
enriquto wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Does sourcehut still require patches via email I'd guess the technically correct answer to this question is "yes". But sourcehut has very good mailing list support, that is essentially equivalent to github pull requests. Still, I find the wording of your question a bit prejudiced... as if I asked "does github still require pull requests via a proprietary interface instead of just sending the patches?"

It is prejudiced. If you like sending patches over email more power to you, but there’s a reason 99% of the world’s devs does not follow that workflow.

> but there’s a reason 99% of the world’s devs does not follow that workflow.

Is there?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by malaproping »

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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by plqbfbv »

formerly_proven wrote: post #172
plqbfbv wrote: post #37

To all of those proposing self-hosted GitLab: we did it for 6+ years in my company, and it's not always a smooth sailing. We had our own runners and we made it auto-upgrade across docker images daily before business start. It mostly worked really well, except those few times were a Docker upgrade had to be rolled back, or that one time the bundled pg_shared_buffers was set at 1MB by default, making schema upgrades im…

> To all of those proposing self-hosted GitLab: ... it's not always a smooth sailing. > (we pinned to major afterwards) I mean OK. But also, if I want a reliable service in my business, I wouldn't typically auto-upgrade docker images nightly to "*".

> I mean OK. But also, if I want a reliable service in my business, I wouldn't typically auto-upgrade docker images nightly to "*".

Well fair, but we had been using it for 4+y at the time before running into that, and the rails-based migration scripts basically never failed once despite being migrated across 6 majors and countless minors/patches. Being a small company, from that PoV it gave us very little downtime for essentially zero security work to maintain it. Of course we had daily (and tested) backups too, just in case, but we never had to use them.

Overall, the downtime of GL, even with auto-upgrading and the issues above, was perhaps 1.5 work-days across 6+ years. GH exceeded that budget in the first 2 months after migrating this year...

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by edgyquant »

mejutoco wrote: post #184
rhdunn wrote: post #134

It depends on what you are after? 1. Do you want something that works and feels like GitHub? -- Forgejo and Gitea are good for this. 2. Do you want a place to host git repositories with minimal hassle? -- GitLab, CodeBerg, and others are available. 3. Do you have your own hosting infrastructure? You could use gitolite and CGit/GitWeb on that hosting platform or local hardware. 4. Do you just want to host repositories…

> 4. Do you just want to host repositories? an ssh connection and git --bare init on your ssh accessible server works just fine

It is much more complex than this to get basic GitHub functionality anyone who has tried can tell you that. It feels like it should be a simple command but it absolutely isn’t

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by keithnz »

to your actual question, no, it really doesn't make sense. The problem is you are saying it is down consistently.... and it's not. You can switch if you want, but from my observations, it's not really that often, and those that do switch make a bunch of compromises when they do. I'd only consider it once you actually measure the impact to your business. Based on actual data and not feelings, then consider whether it is worth it given all the costs of switching. We use it all the time and at most, may have had 30 minutes where we were stuck.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by hinkley »

I'm screwed because I am part of an ecosystem that all lives in github.

I'm not happy about the fact that GH doesn't show my when new issues or PRs are filed against projects I maintain despite the notification settings implying I should be getting notifications, but at least it's not Atlassian.

I was working on major architecture shifts for a couple of libraries, to fix early mistakes or improve performance. I noticed that of them used a tool A that was dead, built on another tool B that was even deader.

I found someone who was building a new B, and I made a new A and offered to swap in it on the one project. That went well, so then I integrated it to the other projects I was contributing to. Which I'm now also a maintainer on.

And also the 'new B', because I pushed the intent of his library farther than he had been thinking about, contributing about 20% of the public facing API and about 5% of the internals.

One of those projects is a monster, of which I'm just on a subproject. I'd never be able to get them all to move off. And any mix of GitHub and ^GitHub results in the amount of busy work I have to do to keep on top of issues and PRs more than doubles.

And that's how the getcha.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by tcfhgj »

babelfish wrote: post #133
axegon_ wrote: post #55

I migrated everything to codeberg several months ago (and created an annual donation schedule). I was never a big fan of github but what ultimately pushed me to ditch it was the way github was shoving copilot/chatgpt in my face without me ever asking. Codeberg has a clear stance on that and it's a stance I can totally get behind. In addition I spun up forgejo at a server at home for very critical stuff and it's aweso…

Note: If you use any form of AI-assisted coding tools, your project breaks Codeberg TOS

> If you use any form of AI-assisted coding tools,

that's not true, only if the project consists mostly of AI generated code

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