GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

With ForgeFed protocol, we don't need centralized forges like Github or Gitlab anymore. I wonder how the ports system would handle that? It's nice to have USE_GITHUB, but with the decentralized approach, how would that work?
 
Cthulhux said:
I’m on Fossil. Git is optimized for the Bazaar, not for the Cathedral. But all of my projects are primarily mine, so Git does not make sense.
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I'm more of a fan of Mercurial than Git, but Python's holding them back and "Oxidation" hasn't been going well. So I use Git (for now)
 
cracauer@ said:
Not if you count in all the extra services that github provides.
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It depends. Wiki, issue tracker, discussions, web interface? Fossil got you covered. CI? Yes, that's a different story.
(But there are solutions for that.)

cracauer@ said:
I did run all this pile for years (for CMUCL) and it was a real circus.
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You ran the CMUCL infrastructure? Honestly, thank you!

bgavin said:
Or…. Microsoft… where software goes to die.
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Wait until you hear about Corel.

scottro said:
I'm not a coder, so I don't know if it's a good platform
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Codeberg does not yet belong to any large corporation. However, I doubt that it is a wise decision to switch from one computer that belongs to other people to another computer that belongs to other people and then hope that something will improve.
 
cracauer@ said:
Not if you count in all the extra services that github provides.
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Indeed. Due to this fact contributing to projects hosted on github is easier, compared to FreeBSD’s collection of services. It would be neat if Freebsd integrates and self hosts such services, &/or find like minded oss projects to share resources.
 
Actually, more accurately stated as both Corel and IBM... where software goes to die.

Windows CE + Windows ME + Windows NT = CEMENT.
😁
 
bgavin said:
both Corel and IBM... where software goes to die.
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That's a bit unfair to IBM. While Corel buys great software and then lets it fall asleep (why on earth did Corel want WordPerfect Office in the first place?), IBM does the opposite: selling great software to the highest bidder.
 
bakul said:
It would be neat if Freebsd integrates and self hosts such services, &/or find like minded oss projects to share resources.
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I like the way the Arch Linux folks maintains their own collection of services in a coherent fashion. It'd be nice if FreeBSD adopting a similar experience. The main site is in need of a serious overhaul.
 
Cthulhux said:
Codeberg does not yet belong to any large corporation. However, I doubt that it is a wise decision to switch from one computer that belongs to other people to another computer that belongs to other people and then hope that something will improve.
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There are many benefits in using a managed service (aka someone elses computer), but it's also often extremely annoying if they decide to change/break existing configuration - in the case of codeberg, they changed the minimum ssh-key length to 3072bits, effectively locking out most people using hardware-tokens (e.g. yubikeys), and in effect force you to use much less secure locally stored keys you have to manually distribute across your systems.
I understand the reasoning to 'protect the clueless', but FFS keep an override for everyone using a hardware token and knowing what they are doing. We don't need to babysit everyone and add safeguards everywhere - if someone wants to shoot his own foot, he should be able to do so. Just let natural selection take its course and weed out the ones that shouldn't have touched a computer in the first place...

I really wanted to migrate to codeberg, but swapping out my hardware token and rotating keys everywhere for *one* platform? not going to happen, so I'll stay on my locally hosted gitea instance...
 
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