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Re: [LUG] MS to buy oyut GitHub?

 

Hi Paul,

On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 12:33:46PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
> As there are alternatives,  then perhaps, if, this does happen it is a
> case of just signing up to for example bitbucket, copying projects over,
>  deleting github and making a clear statement as to why?
>
> As it is also possible to host your own git server perhaps as a Linux
> user group we could do that,  may have to ALL chip in to cover the cost,
> but is this something that is do-able.
>
> How many people here use git?
> How many people here would move?
> How many people here would be willing to PAY or contribute for a lug
> hosted service?
>
> If you read the article MS does have code on github,  Any take over
> seems to remove that autonomy.
>
> Paul
>
> On 03/06/18 11:30, David Vanstone via list wrote:
> > Saw this, depressing.
> >
> > On Sat, 2 Jun 2018, 13:20 Tom via list, <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     *http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/02/microsoft_github/*
> >
> >     *Tom te tom te tom*
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I'm a bit lost here - is it within the scope of the LUG to host a Git
server as well..? The phrase 'feature creep' comes to mind .. ..

With regards to Git servers, there's a few out there. I used to use
Gogs[0], but then I moved to gitolite[1], which I haven't moved away
from since. I use that with cgit and fcgiwrap :-)

I seem to recall that there was a bit of drama with Gogs a long time
ago - at least, it feels like it .. - and thre's now a fork called
Gitea[2]. Not tried it, or Gogs anytime recently, but I just thought
I'd throw that out there if anyone's interested in setting up their
own Git server.

For hosting, Bitbucket is a good alternative, but there's also
notabug.org[3], which I use occasionally, but I think given the news
about Github, I may well move my repos to NAB for mirroring, and
continue my existing approach of pushing to mirrors, whilst
maintaining my Gitolite instance. Gitlab is also another option.

I've digressed a bit there. I *hope* this rumour about M$ acquiring
Github is merely fluff to be ignored, but if it happens .. yeah,
that's a bit depressing. Will have to twiddle my thumbs and see what
happens...

[0]: https://gogs.io/
[1]: http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html
[2]: https://gitea.io/en-US/
[3]: https://notabug.org

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Dom Rodriguez (shymega / dzr).

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