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

[CrankyOldBugger]

I agree that Sourceforge has had some dark days, but since they got bought
out a few months ago I've noticed some improvements.  They seem to have
removed all the bundled crapware and stuff as per new management's
directives.  There was an article on it recently but I can't find the link
yet...


On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 at 10:25 Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> wrote:

> 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.
>
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