[ipozgaj]

OSS (as the name suggests) is about *openness", and that's exactly the point where Slack is falling short and what the article is about.

[mbrock]

GitHub is also a proprietary walled garden, and it's pretty much the nexus of open source today, much like SourceForge was before. At any given time there seems to be a minority that really cares about open infrastructure while the majority just wants convenient stuff on a free tier.

[adamors]

It's hardly a walled garden when you can take your entire repo (including commit history etc.) and go to another provider or go with your own git server.

[Lawtonfogle]

Reminds me of the study that longer return periods are correlated with lower rates of return. Give a method that, in a simple logical view would encourage one outcome, but when you add in the complexities of humans, results in the opposite behavior.

[mbrock]

Sure it is. How do you get your issues and wiki into another Git server?

[TeMPOraL]

Wiki is something you should have a local copy of.

That said, GitHub wikis are just git repositories. You can clone them like this:

https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pag...

As for issues, it's only a little bit trickier - you'll have to use GitHub API, like this:

https://api.github.com/repos/hotsh/rstat.us/issues (from https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-export-backup-GitHub-issues)

[mbrock]

I didn't know that. You still have the problem of mapping the user authentication though. Moving a big repository and giving users the right permissions seems pretty tricky. Do you know of any successful migrations away from GitHub?

[st3v3r]

Repo, maybe. What about the issues in the issue tracker?

[JustSomeNobody]

And that openness extends to being able to use whatever software one wants be it open source, closed source or whatever.