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I hate github, tell me about cool projects and apps that is hosted on alternative platforms (Not mirrored). (biglemmowski.win)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Preface: I appreciate the sentiment, fuck Microsoft.

  1. Projects typically aren't "hosted" on code repositories like GitHub.
  2. 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++!"
  3. 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?
[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you want to contribute to a project developed on GitHub, you need to have a GitHub account. So it does matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

This website explains the process: https://git-send-email.io/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's called a diff and git was designed with exactly this workflow in mind because it's how the Linux kernel has been developed for decades. GitHub is just a new fangled way to social network-ize the git workflow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

So make a private email only for GitHub

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago
  1. 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
  2. The analogy breaks down for collaborative projects, which is where the issues with github arise
  3. If their problem is with the project's distribution method, presumably the answer is yes
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@shnizmuffin @Zen

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.