• Auzy@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    Github is probably the biggest code hosting platform. There is literally no evidence that Microsoft will discontinue it… And they’ve spent a huge amount of time integrating it. It also generates 1 billion in revenue, so why would Microsoft sell it? Furthermore, its free for open source…

    Self hosting is part of the reason our project failed… We wasted a lot of time with that stuff. We used Mercurial, whatever the Canonical one was, and git, and we wasted a lot of time.

    Github works, and is well integrated to everything

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      4 months ago

      Just pointing out that just cause its owned by a big company doesn’t mean it’ll last forever.

      Also the FOSS community is by in large sus of Microsoft cause of their history practice of embrace, extend, extinguish. Which one would argue they embraced FOSS to gain easy access to their projects, the issues, the code, etc to train their models. Which would be OK if all code it generates has to be GPL to agree with the licenses of the collective pool of training data. Either way that’s the topic of debate.

      It sounds like you looked into your constraints and github works for you. That’s great! And that’s what’s important.