Re:It Doesn't Work
by too_root on Sunday March 28, 2021 @07:33PM
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Is there a decent alternative for open source projects?
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Only really self-hosting. But many would consider the admin of that to push it away from the definition of "decent".
Re:It Doesn't Work
by leephillips on Sunday March 28, 2021 @07:46PM
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You can host a git repository on any server. The Linux kernel is not developed on github, is it?
Github is far from just a git repository. It's a ticket tracking system, a discussion system, a release binaries host, a CI/CD component and a pastebin. The linux kernel has no CI/CD, no binaries, it doesn't even have a centralized server (only a copy of Linus' tree) and does everything through mailing lists.
Re:It Doesn't Work
by leephillips on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:15AM
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Well, if you want all of those things in one place, then that means github, practically by definition. But the example of the kernel shows that open source can carry on, on a massive scale, with no need for that.
GitLab also has all of these features, and it had many of them before GitHub, like built-in CI/CD. But for some reason I'm being downvoted for suggesting it on HN, curious why.
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