[badgersnake]

Centralise all the things.

There is too much stuff of GitHub. From a resiliency point of view and from a monopoly point of view this is bad.

[beachy]

Source control is not like other systems. It's (largely) a backup of stuff that is stored elsewhere. Resilience/ monopoly concerns are much less.

[badgersnake]

GitHub is pretty obviously more than just a git repo on a server.

[eesmith]

You must surely know that people use Microsoft GitHub for far more than source control, right?, with issue tracking, email notification, CI, and GitHub Actions.

I recently tried to get a small FOSS project to switch to Codeburg. The answer was "no" because the free CI for them let them catch some MacOS on Apple Silicon bugs (the devs don't have that hardware locally), and because they are already used to GitHub, making it easier to onboard people and review PRs.

[TillE]

So what's the problem? GitHub gives you a bunch of free stuff that would be pretty annoying/expensive to self host. Seems like a good deal.

If they remove some of that stuff, that would be worth complaining about. Until then, seems smart to take advantage of what GitHub is offering. Their CI isn't even super proprietary, you can basically just write bash scripts.

[eesmith]

I pointed out that any "Resilience/ monopoly concerns" must consider more than source hosting.

The phrase "pretty annoying/expensive to self host" highlights the source of those concerns.

How could one "just write bash scripts" to support macOS if you don't have Apple hardware, as in my example?

[badgersnake]

> If they remove some of that stuff, that would be worth complaining about.

By then it’s too late, because there’s no alternative.

[fieldcny]

Quite the opposite, depending on how it’s used it is THE authoritative system for the code, which gets exponentially more valuable with more contributors

[game_the0ry]

^^ This. Git is a beautiful thing. Thanks again, Linus.

[doublerabbit]

No different to SourceForge of the 90's apart from it had a kind of a community feel.

[minkles]

Ah no it's great. I'm waiting until they fuck something major up and will start an off-boarding consultancy.

[delfinom]

The worse headache is I would say there's a low two digit number of even engineers that when you say "git", they say, "github"?