On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 07:37:20AM +1030, Michael T. Pope wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:29:56 +0100 > Fenyo <feny...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I still don't get it, this is way too general. > > Could you please be a little more specific? > > No. I am being deliberately guarded. I was told some things in > confidence, and similarly I am not confident I have the whole story. > > However, from open sources you can verify that github is a classic startup > which is beholden to venture capital investors, and its revenue model > continues to evolve. As I said, they are doing well for now, but I would > be hesitant to bet they are immune to failure.
Fwiw, at Inkscape we faced some similar problems in migrating off SourceForge for code hosting (we still use it for mailing lists, but hope to move that too as it's also not without troubles). We evaluated several providers, and finally came to a choice between github and gitlab. Technically the choice was a bit of a wash - both are on par feature-wise, with most of the deltas being advanced stuff not important to us. Socially github had an advantage of a larger community, but gitlab had an advantage of being more attuned to the open source 'Way' - the gitlab software is itself open source, and allows for free self-hosting if you had the druthers to do so. We ended up selecting gitlab and completed a migration to it earlier this year, with a minimal amount of fuss (which was mostly due to learning curve issues from simultaneously switching from svg->git). There have been some (well publicized) service issues, but otherwise it's been an overall good experience. Moving platforms also netted us some additional developer interest and involvement. We also set up a read-only github mirror, although I can't determine if that brought us any benefits; people who like github seem to find gitlab equivalent so there's been no issues. Migration was straightforward, although we were doing an SVN->GIT transfer, and had some issues relating to branch porting. A GIT->GIT transfer into gitlab would be probably be relatively trivial. Users with accounts in the prior hosting system needed to re-register with gitlab. We have not migrated our issues, forums, mailing lists, wiki, etc. to gitlab, just the code hosting. However, we've been able to take advantage of the CI and other code-related services, so it's been a net gain functionality-wise. I don't know how much is public yet, but I can vaguely say that I know of various other large open source projects I'm involved with are also looking to gitlab rather than github. Anyway, if you are looking to (wisely) move off SourceForge but are unsure about github, I would strongly encourage looking to gitlab as a quite viable alternative. Bryce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freecol-developers mailing list Freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers
