Preface: I appreciate the sentiment, fuck Microsoft.
Projects typically aren’t “hosted” on code repositories like GitHub.
Because the underlying version control technology, git, is meant to be distributed - it’s super weird to draw that line in the sand. It’s like saying “show me TXT files written with SublimeText, I hate Notepad++!”
I get that you might want to, like, judge a developer for using github? But, like… features are features. Build minutes are build minutes. If you fork a repo and use GitLab to manage it, does that make the project better?
Actually, you can send the diff patches by email/ pastebin/ gitlab/ etc. It’s up to the main developer to take your contribution seriously, given the level of annoyance you might be presenting. Same happens in the other direction, you can host your code on sourcehut, but many junior devs could be repelled by the old school ux.
Yes, it’s called a diff and git was designed with exactly this workflow in mind because it’s how the Linux kernel has been developed for decades. GitHub is just a new fangled way to social network-ize the git workflow.
Issues, milestones, discussions, pull requests, build logs, they all stay on the chosen host. That host can then add specific conditions to creating accounts, or participating in the discussion, searching code etc. Such as force you to have a phone number in your account, otherwise you won’t be able to comment on issues. And all of these things might be locked in without a way to export and migrate to another host, so yes, it definitely matters where the project is hosted.
It would be nice if platforms like Forgejo and gitlab could hook into some sort of review and issue tracking protocol that was built directly into git, like git-appraise. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like git appraise is actively developed.
Preface: I appreciate the sentiment, fuck Microsoft.
If you want to contribute to a project developed on GitHub, you need to have a GitHub account. So it does matter.
Actually, you can send the diff patches by email/ pastebin/ gitlab/ etc. It’s up to the main developer to take your contribution seriously, given the level of annoyance you might be presenting. Same happens in the other direction, you can host your code on sourcehut, but many junior devs could be repelled by the old school ux.
I dont get how that works, you mail those lines with all those
+line +something -somethingAnd they can like transform that into git and have it work as an actual patch?
This website explains the process: https://git-send-email.io/
Yes, it’s called a diff and git was designed with exactly this workflow in mind because it’s how the Linux kernel has been developed for decades. GitHub is just a new fangled way to social network-ize the git workflow.
So make a private email only for GitHub
https://giveupgithub.org/
@shnizmuffin @Zen
Issues, milestones, discussions, pull requests, build logs, they all stay on the chosen host. That host can then add specific conditions to creating accounts, or participating in the discussion, searching code etc. Such as force you to have a phone number in your account, otherwise you won’t be able to comment on issues. And all of these things might be locked in without a way to export and migrate to another host, so yes, it definitely matters where the project is hosted.
It would be nice if platforms like Forgejo and gitlab could hook into some sort of review and issue tracking protocol that was built directly into git, like git-appraise. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like git appraise is actively developed.