From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Github mirror and archive
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:34:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k26w1bap.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170406095302.GA6957@mail.thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Thu, 6 Apr 2017 09:53:02 +0000")
Hello!
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
> ** Going off github
Congrats, sounds like the right decision to me!
In addition to its most obvious problems¹ (including privacy—“if the
service is free, then *you* are the product”), GitHub has become a
single point of failure for a large part of the free software commons.
It has managed to build a centralized platform around a distributed VCS,
to the point that many Git users seem to not realize that Git itself is
distribute, or in some cases, that Git can be used without GitHub.
Similar to Marco’s experience, the institute I work for, which was
running a FusionForge instance and losing users to github.com, has now
deployed a self-hosted GitLab-free-software instance, which I think is a
great improvement.
Kudos! :-)
Ludo’.
¹ https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-07 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-06 9:53 Github mirror and archive Pjotr Prins
2017-04-06 12:27 ` Catonano
2017-04-07 6:57 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-04-07 7:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-07 7:26 ` Marco van Zwetselaar
2017-04-07 7:35 ` Marco van Zwetselaar
2017-04-07 15:58 ` ng0
2017-04-07 17:23 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-04-07 15:34 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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