Re:Ask HN: Good alternative to Gmail?
by bman on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @01:41PM
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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.
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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.
Re:Ask HN: Good alternative to Gmail?
by xiongchiamiov on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @07:22PM
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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.