[kwlug-disc] What do people dis/like for things like github.com these days?

[Hubert Chathi]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:40:50 -0400, "B.S." <bs27975.2 at gmail.com> said:

> Seems to me when things like github.com have come up in the list,
> occasionally there has been a note of dislike or unhappiness with them
> - mostly on a philosophical level? (Some level of non-freedom?
> Proprietary-ness?)  The specifics escape me at the moment.

Proprietary-ness is the most common complaint.  Linus also dislikes
Github's pull-request mechanism, and I agree with him -- I would much
rather work with emailed patches.  I also dislike how people are now
treating their README as a project homepage due to the way Github is
structured, and not many people are giving their projects a proper
homepage.

> Anyone with any particular likes or dislikes for such these days?
> (Not looking to start a flamewar - I have no opinions.)

For git hosting, I use a combination of a self-hosted repository (which
only I have write access to) with a cgit front-end, and hosted (free)
gitlab.com.  I've heard that Gogs is easier to self-host than GitLab,
but I personally don't have any experience self-hosting either.

> At the moment I'm only thinking about individual files or scripts, not
> packaging or building - although that's an interesting topic too. For
> that sourceforge immediately comes to mind - not for its quality, or
> lack thereof, but because its been noteworthy as having various issues
> over the years.

If you want something like SourceForge, but that isn't SourceForge,
there's also GNU's Savannah (https://savannah.nongnu.org/ -- if your
project is Free software), or you can host your own site with something
like https://fusionforge.org/

> Mind you, I suppose one appreciates additional facilities like
> documentation repositories, wiki's, issue tracking, and the like, as
> they both seem to - be it for such standalone files, or more. Tracking
> number of views, I suppose, would be a minimum.