You can email patches. This is now the Linux team works.
The code for git itself is also managed the same way (though I don't think there are any subsystems in git, unlike the kernel).
Setting up your own instance of a bit server is free.
If you want issues, CI etc... Then you need a local version of github which you will pay for.
Re:GitHub down
by undecisive on Thursday January 11, 2018 @10:36AM
(#16124625)
Well... unless you use something like gitlab https://about.gitlab.com/ - which is also free, and has support for issues, CI, etc. (snap!)
Or GitLab. That's free and easy to self host.
Re:GitHub down
by apple4ever on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:16PM
(#16126220)
Bingo. People think its hard to self host. Its not. They have an omnipackage that you install. You run updates. You enable the automatic backups. Problem solved!
But maintenance is where people can have issues. GitLab is complex.
Personally, I prefer something more lightweight and for some time I've been using gogs - https://github.com/gogits/gogs (so far so good)
Is gogs maintained anymore? Everyone I know switched to the community fork, gitea.
I can’t push changes to the decentralized Git protocol, only to a (centralized) server instance.