Re: Github mirror and archive

2017-04-07 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 03:58:13PM +, ng0 wrote: > digital dust and serves as a starting point for someone else :) That's > how rustc came to be, someone did it, left it, someone else did it, left > it, I did it and left it, and 3 or 4 more people worked on it until it > finally was ready. I t

Re: Github mirror and archive

2017-04-07 Thread ng0
Marco van Zwetselaar transcribed 0.9K bytes: > On 06/04/17 12:53, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > ** Going off github > > I've been running GitLab self-hosted since December and find it a fine > alternative. > > Their installation instructions try hard to scare you away from > self-hosting and installatio

Re: Github mirror and archive

2017-04-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Pjotr Prins skribis: > ** Going off github Congrats, sounds like the right decision to me! In addition to its most obvious problems¹ (including privacy—“if the service is free, then *you* are the product”), GitHub has become a single point of failure for a large part of the free softwar

Re: Github mirror and archive

2017-04-07 Thread Marco van Zwetselaar
Forgot to mention the obvious: the rationale for the below is my desire to unchain from GitHub. On 07/04/17 10:26, Marco van Zwetselaar wrote: > On 06/04/17 12:53, Pjotr Prins wrote: >> ** Going off github > I've been running GitLab self-hosted since December and find it a fine > alternative. > >

Re: Github mirror and archive

2017-04-07 Thread Marco van Zwetselaar
On 06/04/17 12:53, Pjotr Prins wrote: > ** Going off github I've been running GitLab self-hosted since December and find it a fine alternative. Their installation instructions try hard to scare you away from self-hosting and installation from source, but I think that's more to keep non-sysadmins

Re: Github mirror and archive

2017-04-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: > First of all > github provides me an internet personae. Anyone who wants to assess my > work can visit github and get a clear picture of what I am working on. > This is a valuable resource, but I can probably move it elsewhere > without too much loss. Github has a nice way

Re: Github mirror and archive

2017-04-06 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 09:53:02AM +, Pjotr Prins wrote: > A bit of a long post, but I would like some feedback: I guess most of you agree ;). Preaching to the converted. Pj.

Re: Github mirror and archive

2017-04-06 Thread Catonano
2017-04-06 11:53 GMT+02:00 Pjotr Prins : In all, I have come to depend on github, critically because > organizations I am involved in would be severely impacted when we > moved elsewhere. Even for GNU Guix - which pointedly does not use > github - would be severely hampered if something happened