Lotta people use Gitlab precisely because you can self-host a Gitlab instance - but you can use them as a service provider it's easy to leave. On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 22:47, Duncan <dguth...@posteo.net> wrote: > > With remote git repository hosting we have many options. > > You could self-host gogs or gitlab, or use many of the public instances > of these, e.g. notabug.org or 0xacab.org. Or just host good old cgit > somewhere safe. Or indeed keep using github as a place/mirror to put > code. But with repository hosting we have a lot of choice - in the end I > suppose it depends what you want to put there and what you want to be > public. > > Best wishes. > > Alessandro Rubini: > > This is the question. Or, better, to github or not to github. > > > > Once upon a time, github was a bad hosting site, because the site code > > is not free, and we should have rather preferred gitorious. I > > did. But then gitorious closed shop and I had to go to the various > > projects (hosted elsewhere) that had submodules and make a commit to > > change the link. Not many projects, I admit, but still an unpleasant > > operation. Besides, all past history is now broken because of the > > dangling submodule link. I'm able to bisect anyways, but will my user > > be able too? And this problem is replicated for all repo owners. Not > > nice. > > > > So, besides self-hosting (unfeasible for whole-kernel repos) I moved > > to github. Well, not using it other than as a git repo why should I > > care that the code (that I do not use) is not free? Maybe because I > > contribute visibility to that specific unfree provider, but they were > > "friendly" guys. > > > > Now, they are microsoft. Same people. Same site. Different owner, > > different money-flow. Shall I (we) change attitude? Most smart people > > say no, that nothing changed. I'm aware the new owner is not worse > > than most other companies -- but they are the same ones who wanted to kill > > us out of the market, before turning into friends who still would love > > if we disappeared. > > > > So, I feel a little uneasy, and I'm now wondering where to push my > > yet-unpushed projects (while keeping previous stuff on github for > > several reasons -- mostly link-rusting issues). > > > > How does the free software community feels in this respect? > > > > thanks > > /alessandro > > _______________________________________________ > > Discussion mailing list > > Discussion@lists.fsfe.org > > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > > > This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All > > participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: > > https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > Discussion@lists.fsfe.org > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All > participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: > https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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