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Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

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68 points bitbasher | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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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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1. nottorp ◴[15 Apr 25 11:54 UTC] No.43691471[source]▶
> I don't believe there's any major harm in using Github for most projects.

Actually there was one mentioned in a different post. You're at the mercy of Microsoft (and random US sanctions) not only for your project, where you have a copy of the source and are the canonical source for further updates, but also for your dependencies.