Are you guys fine with these new shenanigans from Github. I found a bug and wanted to check what has been the development on that, only to find out most of the discussion was hidden by github and requesting me to sign-in to view it.

It threw me straight back to when Microsoft acquired Github and the discussions around the future of opensource on a microsoft owned infrastructure, now microsoft is exploiting free work from the community to train its AI, and building walls around its product, are open source contributors fine with that ?

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
    1072·
    7 months ago

    Federated forges can’t come soon enough. Git is already federated. There is absolutely not fucking reason for this.

    • ShortN0te
      455·
      7 months ago

      Git is already federated.

      New to me. Do you mean decentralized instead of federated?

      • toastal
        407·
        7 months ago

        Distributed version control system

        • ShortN0te
          341·
          7 months ago

          I would not say that distributed is federated. But i could not find a widely accepted definition of it.

          For example i would call FTP also not federated🤷‍♂️

          • sunstoned@lemmus.orgEnglish
            221·
            7 months ago

            Agreed. That said, with a few remotes and a cron job git could facilitate “duct tape and zip ties” federation.

          • toastal
            4·
            7 months ago

            Eh, in a myopic sense yes, but folks are using Microsoft GitHub for their CI, issue tracker, forums, kanban, Wiki & so forth. By choosing their Markdown fork, you are locked into that too. Some communities like Elm, Unison, Nix use MS GitHub as your primary community identifier (Elm doesn’t even allow you to create packages on another platform). Many tools only allow MS GitHub single sign on. If you fork off of MS GitHub, in most scenarios you’ll still be required to have an MS GitHub mirror or you won’t be able to submit a pull request as most projects don’t have an alternative contribution channel.

            Some of this can be migrated, some of it can’t & the whole time being entrenched in MS GitHub land projects will fear friction & loss of users/contributors if they move (& the platform they would move to likely isn’t offerering anything more than being open source).

            So can you just move the code elsewhere since Git is a DVCS? Yep. But projects are more than just the source code.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
          7·
          7 months ago

          While admirable, I really don’t think email is the path forward if you want to replace GitHub. There’s a reason people use things like GitHub, it’s user friendly and you don’t need to use email or look at long mailing lists.