On Tue, 15 May 2012 11:43:42 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
<seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote:
I'm well aware that it's deliberate, but it's still anti-competetive,
asinine and anachronistic. And it's not as if the whole hosting thing
isn't
worth anything. That is, after all, what they *do*.
Wait, can't you just git clone the data into whatever "github-like"
service you wish? I mean, yeah, you cannot do pull requests to Phobos
unless you have your code in github, but that could just be a simple
intermediate step.
I recently switched all my private repositories from github to bitbucket
(free unlimited private repositories vs. $12/mo for 10 private
repositories), and bitbucket actually has a page to suck the code from
github *directly* I didn't even have to do the
git-clone-locally-then-push-to-other-remote dance. Probably the easiest
service change of anything in my entire life! It took all of 5 minutes.
So if you like bitbucket, use that, if you like github use that, if you
like something else, use that. But if you want to contribute to a
project, you have to use whatever that project uses. I think that's both
very reasonable and very flexible.
-Steve
