Gitlab is open source and has auto-pull from github
I only push public works to Github, anything private is stored in my own Gitlab instance.
I'm happy to host unlimited number of repos at my own expense[0] if it means people depending less on centralised hosting and allowing them to migrate away when they feel like it.
Gitlab comes up a lot because its idealistic goals resonate with a lot of the people here.
I use Gitlab for some specific things. It's worth checking out. If only because it's nice to know what a migration strategy off githib would look like.
It's quite a silly thing to complain about, but I imagine other software engineers also get slightly stressed by seeing an unbalanced paren!
Which is then countered by people arguing that GitHub was the greatest thing to happen to open source and has introduced so many more people to the OSS community. Perhaps throwing in that a self hosted solution will most likely have worse uptime than GitHub does (which spawns it's own sub-thread of SaaS vs self-hosted solutions)
Then someone says that a higher barrier to entry could help the ecosystem (while muttering something about how many JS libraries there are out there).
I could keep going, but it seems github is working again for me, so off to do some work!
Our Github Enterprise instance sure has better uptime than Github itself. :)
Does anyone know of libraries that can sync at least the filed issues between GitHub and GitLab or Bitbucket in near real time? That's the main thing from GitHub that I'm truly missing when there's an outage.
GitHub isn't 'down.'
