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Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

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68 points bitbasher | 6 comments | 15 Apr 25 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source | bottom
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dale_glass ◴[15 Apr 25 08:54 UTC] No.43690488[source]▶
I don't believe there's any major harm in using Github for most projects.

Maintaining my own servers and chasing ideological purity doesn't improve my project. Any time I dedicate to setting up infrastructure is time I'm not dedicating to making the code better.

The nature of Git means Microsoft can't really do much harm. Every developer and contributor has a copy of the repo, should the worst happen setting up home elsewhere isn't that difficult. But until it is, why spend time on it?

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bestouff ◴[15 Apr 25 08:58 UTC] No.43690518[source]▶
> The nature of Git means Microsoft can't really do much harm.

Famous last words

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1. Zambyte ◴[15 Apr 25 09:40 UTC] No.43690769[source]▶
Especially when a huge portion of GitHub is not Git (wiki, discussions, issues, ci...)
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2. qiine ◴[15 Apr 25 12:37 UTC] No.43691844[source]▶
at this point it feels like github is becoming a social network for developers
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3. bitbasher ◴[15 Apr 25 13:08 UTC] No.43692142[source]▶
Give it a few more years and we'll have LinkedIn-like developer feeds.
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4. qiine ◴[15 Apr 25 22:15 UTC] No.43699092{3}[source]▶
Why do you give away nightmarish ideas for free ?
5. queenkjuul ◴[16 Apr 25 11:37 UTC] No.43704078[source]▶
The wikis are backed by git repos, i just moved my project wiki from GitHub to self-hosted, took just minutes

Issues and PR comments are another story though

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6. rurban ◴[18 Apr 25 09:42 UTC] No.43726455[source]▶
Issues and PR are covered in git-bug bridges, easily mirrored to other forges. But since all other forges still suck compared to github, everybody uses github.