Hector Martin

Tempted to declare a social media blackout, to stop seeing all these "@github is dead, run away!" takes. Look, there are worst Other options. And if you've been at all concerned about evil operators you'd have done something before.

Telling small random projects to self host is not good either. You take away energy from development to deal with all the infrastructure. Yes @videolan can do it. The one-dev-random-tool shouldn't. I will not recommend Savannah.

I used to be critical of @github and even wrote my own gitweb replacement at some point. And I preferred gitorious before. No, I'm not running away. Though some of my repos already are on @Bitbucket (the private ones mostly). I just wish I could mirror them more easily.

If the people I see complaining about @Microsoft spent a fraction of that energy in building something people want to use, we'd have actually usable opensource desktop OSes. Want to build something akin to GitHub they remains for the community? Be my guest. I'd welcome that.

What *would* scare me away from Ms GitHub? A change in policies. Banning of repositories that are borderline legal. But nobody did that. I'm not talking about those that are ethically illegal (think DRM breakers). Those shouldn't rely, or corner, a legally-bound company.

I don't get the panic. It's freaking Git. And there are ways of pulling issue data out. If you're large enough that migrating issues and PRs would be a huge mess, you're big enough to self host. Otherwise, you're small enough you can just git push $elsewhere if shit hits the fan.

And if your company private repos are sensitive enough you don't want @Microsoft to be able to see them, you don't want them on @github either. Not that they'd be snooping through them. But you're either fully paranoid or not at all.