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[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Preface: I appreciate the sentiment, fuck Microsoft.

  1. Projects typically aren't "hosted" on code repositories like GitHub.
  2. Because the underlying version control technology, git, is meant to be distributed - it's super weird to draw that line in the sand. It's like saying "show me TXT files written with SublimeText, I hate Notepad++!"
  3. I get that you might want to, like, judge a developer for using github? But, like... features are features. Build minutes are build minutes. If you fork a repo and use GitLab to manage it, does that make the project better?
[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you want to contribute to a project developed on GitHub, you need to have a GitHub account. So it does matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually, you can send the diff patches by email/ pastebin/ gitlab/ etc. It's up to the main developer to take your contribution seriously, given the level of annoyance you might be presenting. Same happens in the other direction, you can host your code on sourcehut, but many junior devs could be repelled by the old school ux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I dont get how that works, you mail those lines with all those

+line
+something
-something

And they can like transform that into git and have it work as an actual patch?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

This website explains the process: https://git-send-email.io/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's called a diff and git was designed with exactly this workflow in mind because it's how the Linux kernel has been developed for decades. GitHub is just a new fangled way to social network-ize the git workflow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

So make a private email only for GitHub

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago
  1. If it's distributed through github, and there's no push to move elsewhere by users and contributors, then it's effectively hosted on/through github
  2. The analogy breaks down for collaborative projects, which is where the issues with github arise
  3. If their problem is with the project's distribution method, presumably the answer is yes
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@shnizmuffin @Zen

Issues, milestones, discussions, pull requests, build logs, they all stay on the chosen host. That host can then add specific conditions to creating accounts, or participating in the discussion, searching code etc. Such as force you to have a phone number in your account, otherwise you won't be able to comment on issues. And all of these things might be locked in without a way to export and migrate to another host, so yes, it definitely matters where the project is hosted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It would be nice if platforms like Forgejo and gitlab could hook into some sort of review and issue tracking protocol that was built directly into git, like git-appraise. Unfortunately it doesn't look like git appraise is actively developed.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Lagrange is THE SHIT!

(btw, I thought its dev hosted it on forjego?)

Edit: it's hosted on both codeberg and a gitea instance: https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/lagrange/releases

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Codeberg is a forgejo instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

TIL about Gemini (btw not the Google thing and not the bitcoin thing...)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Forgejo itself is hosted on Codeberg, dogfooding itself
Foot terminal emulator
Tenacity Audacity fork
xmobar status bar written in (and configured in) Haskell
Redox Unix-like OS written in Rust
RISC OS Open the original ARM OS, still seeing active development

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Gitlab:

  • brillo - Control the brightness of backlight and keyboard LED devices
  • Gammastep - Day/night gamma modifier that adjusts the color temperature of your screen.
  • Veloren - An open-world, multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust

Codeberg:

  • Fnott - Keyboard driven and lightweight notification daemon for wlroots. Better than mako (IMO).

SourceHut:

  • Kanshi - Dynamic display configuration tool for wayland
  • Senpai - A modern, easy-to-use, terminal IRC client
  • Shotman - Fast and simple screenshot GUI written in Rust, for wayland.
  • wlr-randr - xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
  • wlrctl - Keyboard macros and window automation for wlroots compositors
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Do you like RuneScape?

https://gitlab.com/2009scape/ - 2009 RuneScape emulation

https://gitlab.com/open-runescape-classic - 2003 and 2001 RuneScape emulation

Both are actively developed too

(Disclaimer - I'm actively contributing to Open RuneScape Classic and used to contribute a lot to 2009scape)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Fuck yeah thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Well I know what I am doing for the next few days while I am off work sick.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think the blender institute self-hosts with git tea. https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"I hate Instagram tell me about popular celebrities using their own site/ Twitter/ Mastodon"... I think it's putting the horses behind the cart. You want to use some code or look to a celeb pics? Then do it on wherever those stories were posted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

GitHub was a social network even before Microsoft bought it, or the bot accounts boosting repos' stars numbers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shameless plug for my project shiftmon that's hosted on gitlab it uses ansible to glue together Telegraf, Victoriametrics, Grafana, and Loki

https://gitlab.com/shiftsystems/shiftmon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not a shameless plug at all. Damn this is super nice! Thanks for posting this I'm definitely going to be looking into this project!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I self host my own Gogs server on my raspberry pi, very easy setup with docker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I wish the were a massive uptake of forgejo just to get federation of sourceforges implemented. Alternative sourceforges really need to band together because creating an account on every instance is an absolute no-go.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for being the last required part to push me to using sourcehut. I am already loving it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Of of the osmocom stuff is not in GitHub, which includes open source cellular network stacks, and assorted radio stuff like Rtl-sdr drivers.