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Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Everyone seems to be leaving GitHub, and forgetting the entire spirit of what git is in my eyes. Git was always meant to be decentralized, the problem here is that all the tooling around git was centralized to GitHub because it was a cleaner experience, they scaled nicely, and were properly maintained. I would prefer to still see mirrors on GitHub that are auto-synched because I've seen projects for years either self-host or go somewhere niche, then the GitHub mirror dies or is removed, and said projects go poof to the sands of time for one reason or another, completely gone. Everyone seems to be picking some random git host alternative, and some of them are really simple to use.

Git is decentralized, GitHub is just another place you can host your code in, but you can push your code to multiple remote servers.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by jagged-chisel »

“It’s not because of outages” - goes on to complain about outages.

The outages might be due to AI load, but that’s to relevant because your leaving isn’t due to outages. Even though the article is primarily about outages.

If you have a problem with your code being scanned for AI training, then write that article.

But this article is about outages.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by limagnolia »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

Everyone seems to be leaving GitHub, and forgetting the entire spirit of what git is in my eyes. Git was always meant to be decentralized, the problem here is that all the tooling around git was centralized to GitHub because it was a cleaner experience, they scaled nicely, and were properly maintained. I would prefer to still see mirrors on GitHub that are auto-synched because I've seen projects for years either self…

Forgejo is doing a lot of work to make the tooling decentralized, too. They are using open protocols and standards to link self hosted forges together.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by gchamonlive »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

Everyone seems to be leaving GitHub, and forgetting the entire spirit of what git is in my eyes. Git was always meant to be decentralized, the problem here is that all the tooling around git was centralized to GitHub because it was a cleaner experience, they scaled nicely, and were properly maintained. I would prefer to still see mirrors on GitHub that are auto-synched because I've seen projects for years either self…

Yes, but GitHub is more than just git. The most important aspect of the platform that everybody seems to forget is the social component and how easy it made to create a persistent, off-site repository and collaborate across repos.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by _flux »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

Everyone seems to be leaving GitHub, and forgetting the entire spirit of what git is in my eyes. Git was always meant to be decentralized, the problem here is that all the tooling around git was centralized to GitHub because it was a cleaner experience, they scaled nicely, and were properly maintained. I would prefer to still see mirrors on GitHub that are auto-synched because I've seen projects for years either self…

I think you're forgetting issue tracking and CI.

Re: Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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Post by xx_ns »

sgt wrote: post #7

Is Forgejo Actions any good? CI/CD would be cool.

From personal experience, there have been a few papercuts (mostly trying to figure out why runners aren't picking up jobs), but it isn't too hard to debug and the CI format is simple. When it works, it works well enough. It uses a similar workflow as GitHub actions. Some, but not all, actions are even interchangeable or at least portable from GitHub without much fuss.
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