Chris Angelico wrote: > It's worth noting, by the way, that sometimes it's worth using a > non-federated service. I host most of my projects on GitHub, because > the git repo is the part that's most important to me. I don't heavily > use the bug tracker attached to any of those projects, nor the > gh-pages branch, etc, etc.
That is the complete opposite of making sense. If you had said, "Sometimes it's worth using a non-federated service, and risking vendor lock-in, because the extra features they provide are just that good" then I'd accept that. That makes sense. I don't like it, but that's the business model of proprietary services: provide more features, and use that to lock people in. But saying "I host my projects on GitHub because I DON'T use any of the features which differentiate GitHub from its federated competitors" makes no sense to me. You are actively helping to support a software monoculture, and you're not even getting any short-term benefit from it! That's the worst of all possible worlds -- selling out the future, for no gain today. Personally, I won't use Github if I can possibly ignore it. I have ethical issues with their corporate culture, and I dislike anything which smacks of a monoculture. The more Github gets treated as synonymous with revision control, the more I will push back, until I cannot push back any more. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
