Re:Dear GitHub
by simoncion on Thursday January 14, 2016 @10:47PM
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> Github ought to be a hub.
So, I heartily agree that vendor lock-in is bad. [0] However, git doesn't handle mailing lists, or issue trackers, or hands-off repo push access control, or.... So, if you're going to do more than just serving git repos, you're almost certainly going to have to do these things yourself, and you very well might end up doing them in a way that differs from how everyone else is doing them.
I mean, as long as you can get complete exports of the data in the important non-git bits, who cares, right?
So, I heartily agree that vendor lock-in is bad. [0] However, git doesn't handle mailing lists, or issue trackers, or hands-off repo push access control, or.... So, if you're going to do more than just serving git repos, you're almost certainly going to have to do these things yourself, and you very well might end up doing them in a way that differs from how everyone else is doing them.
I mean, as long as you can get complete exports of the data in the important non-git bits, who cares, right?
[0] I'm STILL mad about how Hangouts turned out.