Nginx has moved to GitHub
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Nginx has moved to GitHub
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Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#2I wonder how the interim process is handled? They're accepting mailing list updates until the end of the year.
Does someone take the mailing list updates and manually PR them into Github? I've never actually used a mailing list so I'm curious how it works.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#3What'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?
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#4Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see.
Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser.
Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#5Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see. Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser. Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?
It's worth mentioning here I think that github's code search is really quite good. I'm not trying to say that github can do no harm or that github "owning" OSS code hosting is a good thing, but the github search bar is a utility that IMO is worth the price of admission.
I think that sourcegraph maintains a similar quality OSS code search that can be searched for free but I have not personally used it.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#6What'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?
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.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#7Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see. Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser. Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?
There are some alternatives like https://grep.app or https://sourcegraph.com/search if you want fast live search, but at the end of the day these are services offered by companies, and rather expensive ones especially for free anonymous users, so you should probably at least accept that service providers can and do change things like this.
You can also run something like your own copy of Zoekt and then ingest repositories on demand though it isn't quite as instant. But if it's code you're already using extensively, it seems like it might be worth it. Maybe you can write some boondoggle to automatically ingest repos based on dependency metadata, even.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#8Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see. Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser. Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?
> Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?
GitLab has had this long time.
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#9wow! about time... weren't they using mercurial for the longest time too?
Re: Nginx has moved to GitHub
#10Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. "Sign in to search code on GitHub" was kinda discouraging to see. Sure, I can clone it and run grep/ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser. Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?
It's worth mentioning here I think that github's code search is really quite good. I'm not trying to say that github can do no harm or that github "owning" OSS code hosting is a good thing, but the github search bar is a utility that IMO is worth the price of admission. I think that sourcegraph maintains a similar quality OSS code search that can be searched for free but I have not personally used it.
Interesting blog about how it works: https://github.blog/engineering/the-technology-behind-github...