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0 pointssyshum6y ago0 comments

>> FLOSS projects will rightly start hosting things elsewhere

They should be doing that anyway, and it should be happening RIGHT NOW, not because of this single dev account suspension but because centralization of control is the antithesis of FOSS, the fact that the community is centralized around github is a clear and present danger to said community.

and no the solution it not for everyone to just move to gitlab, I can see that coming as well, replacing github with hosted gitlab would simply replicate the problem

We as a community need to the distributed, not centralized

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kanox6y ago· 1 in thread

> replacing github with hosted gitlab would simply replicate the problem

How so? A hosted gitlab instance makes you immune from the administrative whims of any particular corporation.

It's possible that gitlab the company stops maintaining the free editions but that's not very much different from other pieces of software going unmaintained.

All the older project hosting software suites like sourceforge/gforge/savannah are still available.

Git itself is very easy to use in a distribute manner, but I guess some form of distributed issue tracker is missing?

syshumOP6y ago

I meant using GitLab's Hosted solution, their Cloud SaaS

Not Self Hosting a GitLab environment yourself.

GitLab.com, not Self-Managed

Jonnax6y ago· 1 in thread

How will they pay for it

Opensource on the whole doesn't pay unless it's sponsored by a company.

PureParadigm6y ago

Git repo hosting really doesn't cost much unless it's super popular and needs a lot of bandwidth (at which point you can probably get some hosting company to sponsor).

At minimum, a Raspberry Pi and an internet connection will do. If you want something a bit more reliable, you can get a virtual server for $5/month and host many repos on it.

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