I agree with Alexander Sharihin. The only/best option is self-hosted. "Other platforms" is just moving "the problem" from X to Y.
I've also got a custom diy repo cloning tool, which generates a nice HTML page. It didn't take long to write (in PicoLisp, of course), so perhaps it's a good way for others to exercise their pil-coding-muscles ;) AW On 06/05/2018 08:03 AM, Alexander Sharihin wrote: > Hello! > > GitLab works on Microsoft's Azure Cloud. > > As I know picolisp developed without using github nor gitlab. > > If you care about freedom use only self-hosted solutions(I'm using just a > ssh-server and user named git with simple diy repo creating tool). > > 2018-06-05 9:52 GMT+03:00 pd <eukel...@gmail.com>: > >> Best alternative probably is gitlab which is free and git based >> >> Anyway there's no reason to change right now because github already was >> non-free and closed so there's nothing new with MS, just a closed company >> swapping. If github was good before it could be good now Just sit down to >> see what MS is planning >> >> El Mar 05/06/2018, 8:45, Nehal <nehalsingha...@gmail.com> escribió: >> >>> Dear PicoLisp programmers, >>> >>> Just see attached news of GitHub been sold out to Microsoft. Being former >>> FSF licensing intern I strongly believe we now need to look forward to >>> another free code hosting platform in order to keep our projects, >>> especially PicoLisp source files free and open Source in its true spirit >>> and not be under umbrella of proprietary firms that are not true to spirit >>> of FOSS. >>> >>> There is an urgent need to ponder on this and take a strong decision to >>> move stuff from GitHub altogether. Mercurial (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ >>> wiki/Mercurial), GNU Savannah (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ >>> wiki/GNU_Savannah) may be other alternatives! >>> >>> Regards, >>> Nehal >>> >>> सा विद्या या विमुक्तये >>> >> >
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