GitHub is battling outages, security issues, and a talent exodus.
  • skami@lemmy.ml
    19·
    3 months ago

    Seems there’s lot of mess in the company all because of Microsoft or name it greed or late stage capitalism but still something tells me GitHub is just too important to lose dominance in next few years, after that if any other company takes over it’ll probably be gitlab but it’s really hard to speculate on this kind of things, I hope Microsoft leaves GitHub alone, they probably will fix themselves, lot’s of developers depend on Github and migration is not easy thing for big repos I expect.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      16·
      3 months ago

      When I first became familiar with the existence of free and open source software, GitHub did not exist yet. The most popular similar website was SourceForge. (Do many people much younger than me even know that exists?)

      If things could change once, they can change again.

      • tobz619@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        I used to get everything from SourceForge! I was a young kid and had no idea what I was doing tho lol :D

    • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      I hope Microsoft leaves GitHub alone

      I see no way of that happening. GitHub is a huge resource for Microsoft; in terms of market penetration, people platform, but especially now with GitHub Copilot and their push for AI. They can’t let go of GitHub.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      It’ll not be gitlab, gitlab is fine but the UI sucks and no improvements in sight.

      Forgejo/Codeberg is the one that will take over in the coming decade.

      • onlinepersona@programming.dev
        7·
        3 months ago

        You think it sucks because you’re used to GitHub’s interface. I really dislike the github interface after having left it a few years ago. Gitlab’s interface is, to me, so much better and a breath of fresh air (even though it might look like the old old Github).

        As for forgejo, I agree, once they get functional federation and a good CI (not a shitty Github actions clone), github and Gitlab can really fuck off. Gitlab might become a “competitor” once they have federation, but they only will do that if forgejo takes off sue to federation.

        • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Agree- I think the gitlab interface, though they tweak it all the time, makes sense. I continually have to hunt for things on github and it’s very annoying to me.

      • ISO@lemmy.zip
        41·
        3 months ago

        Forgejo/Codeberg is the one that will take over in the coming decade.

        This is both wishful thinking, and would reintroduce the same problem anyway (centralization) if it would happen (the codeberg part).

        I don’t take seriously individuals celebrating a move to self-hosting either. While it may look cool and ideally liberating at first, infrastructure/hosting responsibility has worse bus factors and burnout than actual development (not to mention actual monetary costs). It’s safe to assume that any code self-hosted has a high chance of becoming unreachable in 1-3 years (and yes, exceptions exist).

        Solutions like radicale don’t help with unpopular repos, as you would again get a (hosting) bus factor of 1 (the dev/seeder), if that.

        A theoretical solution leveraging an anonymous encrypted distributed storage network for repos would help keeping code alive for a while (after the bus hits). But unpopular content will eventually fizzle out, out of the network.

        Multiple congregations of Forgejo (or something similar) communities forming would be cool. But the technology that would help them form one social block with network effects doesn’t exist*. And what’s proposed here and there (like federation for issues) doesn’t cover the code itself. And even if we get far in that direction, instance drama incidents, and attempts at exerting control over “the network” will inescapably appear.

        * I don’t know if tangled counts. But judging by the amount of love 😑 people show the AT protocol, it may as well not exist.

        tl;dr: Codeberg will not become GH-big. And if it did, it wouldn’t be a good thing. And yet there is no ideal alternative to central forges anyway, not even a theoretical one.

  • ferrule@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    3 months ago

    After MS started down the AI path I updated all my licensing for what I hosted there excluding it from all AI training. Yeah I know they won’t listen but if we ever have a tech based class action lawsuit I am ready.

    I then archieved all my projects posting a link to my self hosted git solution. The new solution again constantly states AI has no business here.

    Last step was setting the guards and traps. I have a robots.txt file setup and my nginx is configured to send 444 to all requests who report as bots. All methods that they should obey. But if they don’t every page I host has an invisible link to a cgi script that creates an infinite loop of links. The bot falls down this rabit hole and I eventually ban their IP.

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
    51·
    3 months ago

    Yessss let it die sonpeoppe can finally switch to non Microsoft alternatives.

    Its already working with the Linux and Mac market shares increasing lately. Please pleeeeeaaaassssseeeee let them drop the ball.