Re: (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub

On 06/03/2018 08:00 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> For years, I've been politely telling representatives of open source projects 
> (Void Linux, many others) 'Hey, you might want to reconsider outsourcing
> your entire source code repos to GitHub, and consider instead deploying
> instead one of many actually open source, self-hosted workalikes such as
> GitLab.'
> 
> I'm betting they'll see nothing wrong with outsourcing to a
> proprietary-software firm run by people they don't know and have no
> reason to trust, based on this news.  I'm glad it works for them.  
> 
> Did I mention GitLab?  ;->

How is gitlab? I looked at it earlier today but tired of "right
click->inspect->delete node" on the gpdr pop-up (my vision's terrible so I
ctrl-alt-+ font size, which makes those kind of things take up huge amounts of
screen real estate because they never test for that, and I don't agree to pop-up
licenses as a matter of principle) so would probably never use the website, but
99% of what I do with toybox is just "git push/pull/clone" from the command line
anyway....

To be honest my favorite feature of github was that it emailed me a URL of pull
requests so I never needed to look at the website, and could wget the .patch url
it sent me and "git am" it without a Gratuitous Merge Commit. I.E. I could
largely _not_ deal with github for a couple years, and just recently got around
to actually poking around at some actual features and such. (Just yesterday I
finally started closing the years of pull requests and such I'd applied by email
but never closed...)

I asked on twitter and got told to take another look at sourceforge, but the
source may be biased. :)

https://twitter.com/loganabbott/status/1003437774731702273

Rob