Occasionally I stop to think about how much of the modern software development infrastructure and community is run at a massive loss: Stack Overflow, npm, Github Copilot (probably Github itself), VS Code.
Also how much of it is owned and run by Microsoft.
So much of it could disappear at a short notice if just one CEO changes his mind about his company’s marketing strategy.
@donkeyblam @baldur if you don't use GitHub tools it's pretty easy to switch. Git is designed to be decentralised, even to work over email so it's not too much of a loss. If you are a corpo you're likely already paying for GitHub, so they will want to keep you.
It's the open source project that use GitHub features that could lose.
@jfrench @donkeyblam @baldur #Git has some glaring omissions in that design that #Fossil doesn't have (all the bug-tracking and wiki features).
#GitBug (https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug) attempts to fix that, but it hasn't been widely adopted.
(Yes, ironic choice of hosting, I know. Incidentally Gitlab is also enshittifying.)
Working over #email also works better if you also use #PublicInbox (https://public-inbox.org/README.html), as synchronization of an archive is non-trivial if you just use mailman's builtins.
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