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Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by IntelMiner »

luckman212 wrote: post #133
SpecialistK wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pfSense maintains some momentum due to name recognition, but anyone who digs a little deeper will see that they're clowns and go with OPN instead.

Can you please cite some recent examples of this clownlike behavior?

They harassed the OPNsense team, registering a domain to besmirch them and then pretended to have nothing to do with it until ICANN got involved

Oh, and they knowingly shipped a broken and insecure Wireguard to their customers, and tried to use their FreeBSD commit status to force it upstream

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by nouney »

Narhem wrote: post #134
jsheard wrote: post #3

What's the state of nginx nowadays? Last I heard the original core team had fractured and formed two different forks while F5 continued to develop OG nginx, so there's three nginxes being developed in parallel now. Have the forks gained any traction?

nginx is one of the building blocks inside Kubernetes. I'd say it's doing okay and probably will for the foreseeable future. I've had the chance to look into the code base and it's relatively easy to read and work with, I doubt there will ever not be funding to have people contribute.

Nginx is not one of the building blocks of Kubetnetes. It's just an Ingress controller

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by jraph »

hinkley wrote: post #142
lillecarl wrote: post #123

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https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-A-Short-Histo... A lot

No, that’s why git was started. I know why git was started. What does it have to do with how git was designed?

That's why and how.

> This prompted the Linux development community (and in particular Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux) to develop their own tool based on some of the lessons they learned while using BitKeeper.

(Emphasis mine). Git was designed with the experience of using BitKeeper in mind.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by jraph »

hinkley wrote: post #56
layer8 wrote: post #16

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You have your history wrong here.

No I don’t. You’re confusing motivation with requirements. I’m talking about requirements. But of advice. Outside of TV programming, when an American is talking about why a tool was created, they almost always mean its purpose, not its origin story. That inspiration story on TV is aimed at inventors. The people who use the tools don’t care, and it’s an anecdote for the rest of us. I suspect that has something to do w…

> You’re confusing motivation with requirements. I’m talking about requirements.

Or, they just disagree with your statement. It would have been better they say why though.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by guiambros »

luckman212 wrote: post #133
SpecialistK wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pfSense maintains some momentum due to name recognition, but anyone who digs a little deeper will see that they're clowns and go with OPN instead.

Can you please cite some recent examples of this clownlike behavior?

Try compiling pfSense.

No, here's an even simpler task: try compiling packages for pfSense.

The clowns from Netgate made it unbelievably difficult, for no good reason other than being antagonist to the open source community.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by lionkor »

gamepsys wrote: post #97
lionkor wrote: post #85

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I use it because its good right now. I used Windows until it turned bad (8) and Linux was easier. If GitHub becomes shit I'm moving my projects off of there and that's that.

Hopefully your projects aren't too ingrained in the github ecosystem for migrating to be an issue. It's a bug tracker, a feature request tracker, a patch tracker ,a wiki, a release repository, plus an onramp to all sorts of azure functionality with gh actions.

Last time I checked Gitea can import PRs and issues!

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by ruthmarx »

hinkley wrote: post #56
layer8 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have your history wrong here.

No I don’t. You’re confusing motivation with requirements. I’m talking about requirements. But of advice. Outside of TV programming, when an American is talking about why a tool was created, they almost always mean its purpose, not its origin story. That inspiration story on TV is aimed at inventors. The people who use the tools don’t care, and it’s an anecdote for the rest of us. I suspect that has something to do w…

> But of advice. Outside of TV programming, when an American is talking about why a tool was created, they almost always mean its purpose, not its origin story.

It's so bizarre you're giving advice here based on such strong assumptions. There was absolutely no need to bring nationality into this discussion at all.

Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub

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Post by cromka »

nicholasjarnold wrote: post #99
0x1ch wrote: post #6

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The state of nginx is fine, similar to pfsense. Both made a "Plus" enterprise support offering, open source clones were forked, the originals remain dominant for enterprise and free users anyways. Not to detract from the great projects that are being worked on, like freenginx and opnsense.

> the originals remain dominant for enterprise and free users anyways. I'm a former pfSense user that reluctantly moved to OPNsense a handful of years ago after a lot of bad press around Netgate started circulating widely causing me to believe that support for the community offering might wane over time. I was under the impression that many people had moved off of pfSense for home use. I'm surprised by your assertion…

I did the same and while I never had any issues with pfSense staff being rude or condescending, I had experience such attitudes on multiple occasions with OPNSense staff, and that included my bug reports with fixes provided. I was scratching my head a lot wondering if “I was me, not them” but no, I saw this with others, too, and then realized there’s something wrong there. I don’t even bother reporting anything anymore because of that.

This is all very ironic because that kind of attitude was the main drive for many to move away from pfsense.

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