I have no gripe with gh specifically, but it's very disappointing that the first thing people do is flock to centralized services on top of the brilliant p2p scm that is git. You really don't need to look further to get a grasp of how things for the dweb will work out.<p>Also of note: github blocks indie search crawlers, contributing to search engine monoculture. Moreover, your user's clicks are captured by a company with an incentive to push for privacy invasion as a business model going forward. So, indeed, F/OSS projects using gh should definitely reconsider, if they haven't already done so when MS bought gh.
> if you are attached to your CIs then there are probably decent FOSS solutions for that<p><a href="https://drone.io" rel="nofollow">https://drone.io</a> is open-source and works very well.<p>I personally can't stand Gitlab's interface and general slowness.<p>sh.rt (which kind of became <a href="https://sourcehut.org" rel="nofollow">https://sourcehut.org</a>) looks much better but it looks like you need to be logged in to see most of the content.<p>About abuse on Github, I only had issues with posting email addresses in public gists (even if they are public ones), and saw repo owners editing other people's comments, which should not be a thing.<p>About Github's source code, it's not open-source but you can host it with Github Enterprise and actually look at the source code (it's a very simple encryption of the source code as far as I remember).<p>Anyway, since Microsoft's acquisition of Github I started to worry of the general direction Github is going to but so far they haven't messed up too much IMHO.
There was a time when I thought places like GitHub are the future of Open Science [1], which will replace paper articles by data+programs. The problem is now well-known: at any moment somebody will buy the whole place and will upgrade it, so to say.
[1] <a href="https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/the-price-of-publishing-with-github-figshare-g-etc/" rel="nofollow">https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/the-price-o...</a>
This is rubbish.<p>> GitHub is not FOSS. Gitlab is.<p>Firstly, I don't think it is hypocritical to run a service that isn't FOSS, but that also supports FOSS. Secondly, nobody is under the illusion that Github is open source. Thirdly, Gitlab is only <i>partly</i> open source. Many of its features aren't.<p>> Github pull requests suck, why not just use email?<p>Maybe because email doesn't: a) Give you a convenient list of open pull requests, b) Give you a list of pull requests that other people can see at all c) Let you do nice line-by-line code reviews, d) Let you integrate CI tools easily, etc. etc. etc.<p>> You can't host malware on Github<p>Ok?<p>> I set up gitolite for repository access control, cgit for a simple Web frontend, and I plan to include an issue tracker that treats E-mail as first-class rather than forcing users to create accounts (possibly Bugzilla but I'm open to suggestions)<p>Riiiight. I'm sure everyone will love going back to the good old days of Bugzilla.
They already started to botch it up anyway, you can see the "copy-pasted-from-competitors-we-wanna-be" feature creep already arriving. That notification timeline lifted from the manyfacedbook, where they want you to look at the adds they will shove into it soon enough.<p>That maintenance lack for the open source users and the lack of new really relevant features.
This stuff doesn’t matter ... it really boils down to the extreme FOSS ideological stance.<p>Fact is GitHub is the site that won this winner take all race. If you put your open source project anywhere else you do your project and it’s users a disservice. Everyone knows and is familiar with github and uses it every day ... taking your project elsewhere takes it out of this daily workflow.<p>And frankly who cares if GitHub itself is not open source... honestly it really doesn’t matter in any meaningful practical way, it matters only from an ideological standpoint.<p>I like it that the modern world of OSS isn’t controlled by the extreme ideology because these people tend to choose worse options to get the job done because that worse option meets an ideological position.