Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 12 hours agoHow GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystemploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down12
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minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agoRelatively minor for source code forges. The reasons everyone uses GitHub: Free, even for private repos. No ads. Free CI - this is huge. Nobody else does this because it costs Microsoft around $100m/year to provide. It’s quite good. If anyone can ever compete with that then I doubt network effects will keep people there.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoCodeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·36 minutes agoThey’re clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.
Relatively minor for source code forges.
The reasons everyone uses GitHub:
If anyone can ever compete with that then I doubt network effects will keep people there.
Codeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci
They’re clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.