to git or not to git

[David Gerard]

Lotta people use Gitlab precisely because you can self-host a Gitlab
instance - but you can use them as a service provider it's easy to
leave.
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 22:47, Duncan <dguthrie at posteo.net> wrote:
>
> With remote git repository hosting we have many options.
>
> You could self-host gogs or gitlab, or use many of the public instances
> of these, e.g. notabug.org or 0xacab.org. Or just host good old cgit
> somewhere safe. Or indeed keep using github as a place/mirror to put
> code. But with repository hosting we have a lot of choice - in the end I
> suppose it depends what you want to put there and what you want to be
> public.
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Alessandro Rubini:
> > This is the question. Or, better, to github or not to github.
> >
> > Once upon a time, github was a bad hosting site, because the site code
> > is not free, and we should have rather preferred gitorious.  I
> > did. But then gitorious closed shop and I had to go to the various
> > projects (hosted elsewhere) that had submodules and make a commit to
> > change the link.  Not many projects, I admit, but still an unpleasant
> > operation. Besides, all past history is now broken because of the
> > dangling submodule link.  I'm able to bisect anyways, but will my user
> > be able too?  And this problem is replicated for all repo owners. Not
> > nice.
> >
> > So, besides self-hosting (unfeasible for whole-kernel repos) I moved
> > to github. Well, not using it other than as a git repo why should I
> > care that the code (that I do not use) is not free?  Maybe because I
> > contribute visibility to that specific unfree provider, but they were
> > "friendly" guys.
> >
> > Now, they are microsoft. Same people. Same site. Different owner,
> > different money-flow.  Shall I (we) change attitude? Most smart people
> > say no, that nothing changed. I'm aware the new owner is not worse
> > than most other companies -- but they are the same ones who wanted to kill
> > us out of the market, before turning into friends who still would love
> > if we disappeared.
> >
> > So, I feel a little uneasy, and I'm now wondering where to push my
> > yet-unpushed projects (while keeping previous stuff on github for
> > several reasons -- mostly link-rusting issues).
> >
> > How does the free software community feels in this respect?
> >
> > thanks
> > /alessandro
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