From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jun 15 10:28:26 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB4BF1014D85 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:28:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 63EF885B2C for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:28:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1529058506; x=1531650506; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=9YxBTJXWlubDdo+duaZ1woY1j/9qJMLa3paE9a79plM=; b=gh6Jaffn9VC4FNPwFa+/opTlBxMfGjbY2F8IQYOvJ3MinnQrMYJwYn3j3bHrxvBRREBVYeuUDV4sP183frra6A8sYRs8asRsONiaK9lTycZDxM6S0RfyrrXY2GeTsd9SNGz4PnoWQiNGnoDX3p22Tja4dnkVU5uOKJWiN+XcKN4= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xOGYwMDAwMDAyYTUyMzcuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r4.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r4.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com [52.5.202.82]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 15 Jun 2018 06:28:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r4.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 15 Jun 2018 06:28:18 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1fTlxo-0007Ws-C9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:28:16 +0000 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:28:16 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft github acquisition official Message-Id: <20180615112816.662602c7a0bd54b2a4ae9fe9@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <700afc2c6952dc99c5d1220453f7a59f83bef67a.camel@malikania.fr> References: <20180607004713.GA5071@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> <20180607081203.f74acbb7802284800060ad93@sohara.org> <700afc2c6952dc99c5d1220453f7a59f83bef67a.camel@malikania.fr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:28:27 -0000 On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:53:12 +0200 David Demelier wrote: > On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 08:12 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > Erm Gitlab ? From the Gitlab wikipedia entry: > > > > ---------------- > > In June 2018, the acquisition of competitor GitHub by > > Microsoft[24][25] > > caused a migration of over 250,000 projects to GitLab[26]. > > ---------------- > Until it gets bought by facebook or amazon or anything not opensource > in mind. Gitlab is open source (and in the ports) so if it's wanted it's there. It is also a hosting service with free and paid plans, which as you say is in danger of getting snapped up by one of the giants. Both are potentially useful alternatives to Github. If I were setting up a software development startup I'd certainly consider an internal gitlab setup, I'm not so I haven't reviewed it in depth. If I were running a small open source project with a few collaborators the hosted service would be one place I'd be looking. > FreeBSD already hosts their source code for now, we don't need to use a > private closed source host. True enough, FreeBSD has hosted their source since Walnut Creek days and I doubt that will stop. Things like hosted github and gitlab are mostly suitable for smaller projects that don't want the overhead of maintaining their own infrastructure. There's a fair number of those clustered around FreeBSD. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith