Am 06.06.2018 um 16:16 schrieb Matthew Brush:
On 2018-06-06 01:53 AM, Mark O'Donovan wrote:
Hi,
Regarding https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1870
What are people's thoughts on transitioning away from GitHub?
I personally have given GitHub a free pass up to now due to the benefits they were providing to the FOSS community. Following the Microsoft buyout I no longer wish to do so and have moved all repositories I control to GitLab. I am considering closing my GitHub account altogether and will be considerably more likely to contribute to GitLab projects in future. In this i'm sure that I am not alone.
I also think that Geany, as a Free and Open Source Software program, should be hosted on a FOSS repository management site. The same open source arguments that we use to promote Geany apply here.
What changes with the new ownership? As I understand it, the website is to remain free for open source projects, is still proprietary software, and is still owned by an (albeit massively larger) for-profit corporation.
I agree. For now, Github is just as proprietary as before so I see no reason for an immediate changeover.
I would welcome to use more open services in general. Although I'm not sure if Gitlab or anything else is any better if you can't afford self-hosting anyway.
Best regards.