Hi, On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 3:21 PM Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 7:48 AM Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I just came across this:
https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
I guess this is something we should review and consider - although it would obviously have serious costs.
Cheers,
I didn't see anything in the article that made me want to switch. I would need to see actual cases of abuse. I also recall that Linus used Bitkeeper because it was the best tool at the time and made that argument. The trouble arose when Andrew Tridgell reversed engineered the protocol, which Larry McVoy complained violated the terms of use. So on and so forth. I haven't noted problems along that line with GitHub. It doesn't bother me that it is proprietary as long as they are responsive and I do appreciate the work going on to make it better. Someone has to pay for that and we are getting a free ride. It might be nice if we could back up the issues and PRs so history wouldn't be lost if we did need to move at some point, but that would be a good idea on any site.
Yes, I felt the same - that the arguments there were not completely compelling to me - yet - but I was wondering whether we should take the opportunity to take stock, and make sure we have prepared, in case we do have to move, or if there are a subset of developers who want to work elsewhere, collaborating with the main repository on Github. Cheers, Matthew