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

[Keefer Rourke]

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On October 23, 2016 10:23:11 AM EDT, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:40:50 -0400, "B.S." <bs27975.2 at gmail.com> said:

>Proprietary-ness is the most common complaint.

This is a complaint that I have as well, but for me it doesn't overrule how convenient GitHub is. GitHub also has a huge community, so if you want to share your software, that is an effective place to do it.

>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.

I like finding out a lot from the README, it saves me from having to go to several different websites, when I can find the information I want with the project. Maybe I'm weird? Nothing says you can't have both a project homepage and an extensive README.

>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.

I started actively using GitHub when I gave up on trying to self-host Gitlab. I discovered Gogs a while ago and I'm honestly in love with how simple it is. You download and run a single binary (a Go web application) and you're running without a hitch. I'm trying to move my stuff (slowly) from GitHub to my Gogs instance. This said, GitHub is huge and I think its beneficial to at least host a mirror repository there.

>> 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.

Gogs offers very GitHub-esque wikis, issue tracking, and merge request management. It's a really nice drop-in replacement if that's what youre looking for.

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