Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?
by dijit on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:16AM
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This is reductionist, I am not the first to fall in line to support github here, but lets expand on what github is instead of assuming.
Github is, primarily, managed source code hosting- but it has more components, so lets break them out:
1: Source code hosting
2: Web view
3: Issue tracking
4: Project management tracking
5: Search
6: Authentication and identity (oauth2 and "applications")
7: Documentation rendering
8: Web hosting (a-la github pages)
9: CI pipeline (github actions)
SVN replaces point 1, and poorly. How many hours do you need to manage an SVN server? Very few I would wager but it at least behooves to ask the question. And it certainly behooves to understand that you're not replacing 1:1; you're replacing many things with one, and managing the above yourself can be done cheaper, but poorer, so that "poor" imitation could cost more time for using it too.
It's a very nuanced topic but an interesting one, and reductionist questions like this are not helpful.
Github is, primarily, managed source code hosting- but it has more components, so lets break them out:
1: Source code hosting
2: Web view
3: Issue tracking
4: Project management tracking
5: Search
6: Authentication and identity (oauth2 and "applications")
7: Documentation rendering
8: Web hosting (a-la github pages)
9: CI pipeline (github actions)
SVN replaces point 1, and poorly. How many hours do you need to manage an SVN server? Very few I would wager but it at least behooves to ask the question. And it certainly behooves to understand that you're not replacing 1:1; you're replacing many things with one, and managing the above yourself can be done cheaper, but poorer, so that "poor" imitation could cost more time for using it too.
It's a very nuanced topic but an interesting one, and reductionist questions like this are not helpful.