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So time for a history lesson. First, who am I? I'm JayF -- I've been working on OpenStack for about a decade, and am the currently serving TC Chair. This is not an official history, but my attempt to give you the story behind this from my perspective. OpenDev collaboratory originally started as part of OpenStack itself -- as the team that enabled us to test the giant software suite. When it became clear that the tooling created and used by that team had general interest, it became time for them to spin off into their own group. I'll note that this maps similarly to what happened with Zuul -- a tool created around OpenStack, that was generally useful and split into it's own project. OpenDev was infrastructure services created around OpenStack and for OpenStack, that are generally useful and split into it's own project. This context is important as to where it puts things on the timeline: OpenDev, and the associated technologies, were not created as an alternative to some incumbant power like Github or Gitlab -- when it was created, there were few, if any, other tools that could operate at that level of scale. (It's unclear to me if Github, as we think of it today, even existed or was at any level of popularity at this point in time.) So as this thread hopefully picks up steam, lets avoid terms like "alternative to" or things that miss the context. OpenDev has been around, and open, for a long time. It will continue to be around, and open, for a long time. They aren't going to feed your code into an AI to train it, and they aren't going to try and turn your collaboration toolset into a social media platform. It's a tool to get work done, and I've been lucky to work in it for the last ten years. |
In 2010, when Openstack has had its first release, Github already hosted 1 million repos. https://github.blog/2010-07-25-one-million-repositories/
For comparison: Sourceforge had less than 250,000 in 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#/media/File:SF.net....