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| From | Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? |
| Date | 2016-07-13 22:07 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.57.1468469234.21009.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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On 07/13/2016 01:00 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Even if Github was 100% open source with no proprietary extensions, and the >> *technical* cost of leaving was low, the single-network effect would still lock >> you in, which leaves you (to some degree) at the mercy of Github's management. >> Don't like the fact that they run their servers on electricity made from >> burning puppies and the tears of little children? Too bad, what are you going >> to do, move your project to some backwater VCS where nobody ever goes? You >> might as well be on AOL for all anyone will ever find your project. > > So what're you going to do? Move *now* to some backwater where nobody > ever goes, just in case GitHub ever turns evil? No, you just run git as it was designed to be used. In a completely decentralized fashion. If Github had honored this aspect of git, there'd be no problem. A repo on GitHub would be just one of many publicly-facing git repos. But by refusing to allow federated pull requests, GitHub has most definitely created lock-in. I understand that in Python's case, pure cost wins out. Python.org could host a GitLab instance, which contains the repo tools plus ticket tracking, etc, and ordinary developers could push their changes to their own public git repos and send in pull requests and it would all work swimmingly. However this comes at considerable cost in terms of maintenance of the server and server software. So I can understand the allure of GitHub. It's shiny and free-ish.
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Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Natsu Dragneel <srentzsch10@gmail.com> - 2016-06-30 05:48 -0700
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-06-30 15:09 +0200
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-06-30 15:03 +0100
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-30 16:06 -0700
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 09:13 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-30 19:16 -0400
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-07-01 07:53 +0200
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-01 11:14 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-01 11:38 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-07-01 07:41 +0200
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-13 11:28 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 13:39 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-13 14:42 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 15:11 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-13 16:44 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 17:00 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-13 18:49 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 19:20 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 22:07 -0600
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-13 21:49 -0700
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? hasan.diwan@gmail.com - 2016-07-14 12:04 -0700
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-07-14 15:34 -0400
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-14 16:04 -0700
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-15 10:39 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Brandon McCaig <bamccaig@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 11:39 -0400
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 02:12 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-07-15 21:28 +0300
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-07-15 21:57 +0300
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Brendan Abel <007brendan@gmail.com> - 2016-07-14 16:13 -0700
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-15 10:45 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-15 11:11 +1000
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 06:03 -0700
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 15:26 -0700
Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-30 23:51 -0700
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