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Re: Before GitHub

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Post by cenamus »

thayne wrote: post #80
wps wrote: post #65

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Those screenshots and videos are taking up space SOMEWHERE, whether it be your inbox or your filesystem, why not have them as unversioned artifacts in your db? (Fossil supports this). Of course if you have multiple people working on it and many assets, other solutions would be better (shared cloud drives, etc). But for my use case of a storing textual information only (and perhaps a demo video, which many Git users o…

> Those screenshots and videos are taking up space SOMEWHERE, Sure but there is a big difference between being stored once (modulo backups) on a central server, and every developer needing to download all the resources for every issue and the entire wiki in order to work on the code at all. It works fine for sqlite, because they only have a handful of developers, so it's not a big deal for them each to have their own…

I haven't checked but surely you can only check those out if you need them?

Re: Before GitHub

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Post by dolmen »

> Regardless of whether GitHub is here to stay or projects find new homes, what I would like to see is some public, boring, well-funded archive for Open Source software. Something with the power of an endowment or public funding to keep it afloat. Something whose job is not to win the developer productivity market but just to make sure that the most important things we create do not disappear.

There is already such an organization in Europe:

https://www.softwareheritage.org/

Underfunded relative to the task, and the (accelerating) speed of free software production.

Re: Before GitHub

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Post by lpln3452 »

psychoslave wrote: post #31
alastairp wrote: post #25

> What GitHub Gave Us To me one of the clear things that GitHub gave us was a structure around a person rather than a project. To me it felt liberating to quickly create a repository attached to my name than it was to go through the (what felt to me) very serious process of coming up with a project name and reserving it on sourceforge just to get a cvs or svn repository (along with website, mailing lists, issue track…

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Good grief. Now the YouTube Shorts crowd is showing up here too.

Re: Before GitHub

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Post by jimbosis »

powvans wrote: post #42
sikozu wrote: post #36

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Now is a great time for somebody to buy fossilhub.com and create a new community.

I know someone[0] who is working on exactly this right now: https://fossilrepo.io/ I don't think he's got public sign ups turned on yet. Maybe hit him up on the Twitter for more info. [0] - https://x.com/ragelink

There's also "Chisel - Fossil SCM Hosting".

"This service is completely free and run because a service like it should exist."

https://chiselapp.com/

"All public repositories":

https://chiselapp.com/repositories/

I don't know if it has all the GitHub features people may be looking for.

Chisel runs on Flint, "The ISC licensed codebase behind http://chiselapp.com.":

https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/flint/index

EDIT: Add "...should exist." sentence from the homepage.

Re: Before GitHub

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Post by dewey »

dolmen wrote: post #102

> Regardless of whether GitHub is here to stay or projects find new homes, what I would like to see is some public, boring, well-funded archive for Open Source software. Something with the power of an endowment or public funding to keep it afloat. Something whose job is not to win the developer productivity market but just to make sure that the most important things we create do not disappear. There is already such a…

The top sponsors are quite telling: US tech companies and hyperscalers, Abu Dhabi, French Government and some french universities.

Re: Before GitHub

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Post by conartist6 »

fragmede wrote: post #96
conartist6 wrote: post #95

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Yes I'm aware, I grew up in a college town in rural Pennsylvania. I chose the name when I signed up for Neopets uhhhh 20 years ago now.

The best time to have chosen a new name was 20 years ago. The second best time to choose one is now.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm me. 's not likely to change is it? I could color inside the lines and hope it buys me a nice life, but if I was that kind of person I would never have tackled this insane of a project

Re: Before GitHub

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Post by conartist6 »

swader999 wrote: post #75
MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #43

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Your username is con artist lol

Maybe he likes a challenge?

I guess I happily invite people to disrespect me for superficial reasons. Baseless disrespect keeps me motivated. Sorting out people who are only kicking tires also helps protect my time.

The ones who show real curiosity, those are the people I'll give my full attention to any day of the week.

Re: Before GitHub

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Post by divbzero »

kelnos wrote: post #56
prima-facie wrote: post #50

Smaller, decentralised forges actually make lots of sense from a digital sovereignty point of view. Over reliance on a single instance like GitHub is not healthy in the long run. The issue they would have to solve is federation.

Yeah, federation is really the sticky bit. It's very frustrating for people to have to create yet another account in order to file an issue or submit a pull request. And on top of that, spam is a huge issue. We've progressively further and further locked down new accounts on gitlab.xfce.org because the spam situation has just gotten so bad. We actually don't allow new "native" account creation at this point, and ask…

I really like the idea of distributed forges, but am not familiar with viable solutions for federation. Are there good options available right now? Or at least a not-terrible option?

(Edit: Turns out there’s a very obvious and widely used option. git format-patch + git send-email is used to develop major open source software such as Linux, GCC, and Git itself.)

Re: Before GitHub

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

bsimpson wrote: post #20

I think I was one of the first people to try Flask. I learned Python so I could take advantage of AppEngine for free and easy modern hosting, which put me in the right spot when Flask launched. I've long been an admirer of Armin's, and recognized his domain before I clicked the link. As he points out, in those days, you didn't default to GitHub. His post is a response to Mitchell's, from just a few hours ago. I'm imp…

That’s because most of this post was hanging around as a draft. I originally wrote it after Zig left but I didn’t finish or publish it.
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