Not to imply that this makes MiniG any worse, but I love the idea of "I'm making a stand against Google, let's see... ooh look, Google Code!"

Well i got a alternative to google code as well, check out indefero http://www.indefero.net/ I actually spent a good bit of time last year finding all the alternatives for google products and have implemented most of them.

Personally I have no problem using Google products, and if I did have then I'd go with github (in fact, I'd go with github over Google Code now, too). Just found it funny that the project offered as a solution to not wanting to use Google was hosted by Google.

If github were open source i might consider it as well but as it isnt i am avoiding product lockin by using indefero, setup was easy and its basically a git version of google code so its familiar for most users.

The concept of distributed version control makes vendor lockin on a product like GitHub almost a moot point. For instance, see the _why mirror: http://github.com/whymirror - while not the same situation, it is similar.

GitHub's issues and wiki pages are not included in your repository, although I know the issues have a very nice API (I'm not sure about the wiki).

Software management via git isnt locked in i am referring to the issues, wiki and project management pieces.

forgot i wrote a blog post on the installation so hope it helps someone: http://duuit.com/pg/blog/bman/read/552364/how-to-have-gmaill...