Preface: I appreciate the sentiment, fuck Microsoft.
- Projects typically aren’t “hosted” on code repositories like GitHub.
- Because the underlying version control technology, git, is meant to be distributed - it’s super weird to draw that line in the sand. It’s like saying “show me TXT files written with SublimeText, I hate Notepad++!”
- I get that you might want to, like, judge a developer for using github? But, like… features are features. Build minutes are build minutes. If you fork a repo and use GitLab to manage it, does that make the project better?
If you want to contribute to a project developed on GitHub, you need to have a GitHub account. So it does matter.
Actually, you can send the diff patches by email/ pastebin/ gitlab/ etc. It’s up to the main developer to take your contribution seriously, given the level of annoyance you might be presenting. Same happens in the other direction, you can host your code on sourcehut, but many junior devs could be repelled by the old school ux.
I dont get how that works, you mail those lines with all those
+line
+something
-something
And they can like transform that into git and have it work as an actual patch?
- If it’s distributed through github, and there’s no push to move elsewhere by users and contributors, then it’s effectively hosted on/through github
- The analogy breaks down for collaborative projects, which is where the issues with github arise
- If their problem is with the project’s distribution method, presumably the answer is yes
Issues, milestones, discussions, pull requests, build logs, they all stay on the chosen host. That host can then add specific conditions to creating accounts, or participating in the discussion, searching code etc. Such as force you to have a phone number in your account, otherwise you won’t be able to comment on issues. And all of these things might be locked in without a way to export and migrate to another host, so yes, it definitely matters where the project is hosted.
It would be nice if platforms like Forgejo and gitlab could hook into some sort of review and issue tracking protocol that was built directly into git, like git-appraise. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like git appraise is actively developed.
TIL about Gemini (btw not the Google thing and not the bitcoin thing…)
Lagrange is THE SHIT!
(btw, I thought its dev hosted it on forjego?)
Edit: it’s hosted on both codeberg and a gitea instance: https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/lagrange/releases
I meant gitea 🙃
Gitlab:
- brillo - Control the brightness of backlight and keyboard LED devices
- Gammastep - Day/night gamma modifier that adjusts the color temperature of your screen.
- Veloren - An open-world, multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
Codeberg:
- Fnott - Keyboard driven and lightweight notification daemon for wlroots. Better than mako (IMO).
SourceHut:
Do you like RuneScape?
https://gitlab.com/2009scape/ - 2009 RuneScape emulation
https://gitlab.com/open-runescape-classic - 2003 and 2001 RuneScape emulation
Both are actively developed too
(Disclaimer - I’m actively contributing to Open RuneScape Classic and used to contribute a lot to 2009scape)
