On 15/02/16 17:53, strom...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 6:19:56 AM UTC-8, Chet Ramey wrote: >> How does setting up a different place for people to get the code >> contribute to a software monoculture? > github is becoming too popular for free software's own good. > > It's to the point that some people feel like if it's not on github, it's not > worth looking at. I think hosting on a site like GitLab or BitBucket might be a good compromise. It's essentially the same thing: a fancy web interface that obviates the need for locally checked-out code. GitLab's community edition is free software, and there are several online instances of that software separate from GitLab's main website (which runs the nonfree version).
It's a vain hope of mine that adding popular projects to hosts other than GitHub might stop people from conflating "git" (the tool) with "GitHub" (the website). Unfortunately I don't think that will ever happen. All that said, I don't see what tangible benefit you would get from mirroring the source repo on any of those sites. I don't think it vastly improves readability, and since they all lack features like jumping to symbol definitions, in the case of multiple files it greatly harms readability compared to bog-standard vim with ctags. The only thing you'd get out of it really is an issue tracker, and I doubt people are going to move all discussion to some external website without a good reason to do so.
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