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OP- Do you have a roadmap to supporting this outside of GitHub? I think the people that benefit most from it, due to corporate policies and outdated deps, are t

OP- Do you have a roadmap to supporting this outside of GitHub? I think the people that benefit most from it, due to corporate policies and outdated deps, are the people least likely to be using GitHub! Everyone else - Is this a general problem with people locking these (very cool) tools to GitHub? Is there a generalised solution to the problem of source control integration?

yellowsir 10y ago
its bad decision making. but to be fair dependency ci will add gitlab and bitbucket in the future. it still sucks that awesome tools like this are github first, git is a central tool and tools arround git should not depend on any hoster at all - imho
- tomstuart 10y ago
  What alternative decision are you imagining? A service like this can’t depend on Git alone. It needs to know when the repo is updated (e.g. GitHub’s webhooks) and has to publish its results somewhere (e.g. GitHub’s commit statuses). So it only really works with hosted repos. Since each hosting service has a different API, each integration needs to be built individually. And it makes sense to integrate with GitHub first because it’s the most popular repo host.
  - insomniacity 10y ago
    It's the most popular repo host on HN for sure, but think about all the private repos behind corporate firewalls etc!
    - happyslobro 10y ago
      Some of which are Github Enterprise :p
  - happyslobro 10y ago
    Maybe server-side git hooks would do the trick? Can we assume that any "decent" git server will be able to run a bash script? A service could instruct the user to download a couple scripts and put them in .git/hooks. Or just copy and paste a wget command from within the repo root. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
  - chriswarbo 10y ago
    > It needs to know when the repo is updated (e.g. GitHub’s webhooks) post-receive hooks work well for this. I use them to push changes from my laptop up to my server and GitHub (which I use as a free mirror). My server uses a post-receive hook to regenerate a HTML view of the repo. > has to publish its results somewhere (e.g. GitHub’s commit statuses) Git has really good email integration.
sytse 10y ago
FYI GitLab is considering integrating VersionEye in the interface

yellowsir 10y ago

its bad decision making. but to be fair dependency ci will add gitlab and bitbucket in the future. it still sucks that awesome tools like this are github first, git is a central tool and tools arround git should not depend on any hoster at all - imho

tomstuart 10y ago
What alternative decision are you imagining? A service like this can’t depend on Git alone. It needs to know when the repo is updated (e.g. GitHub’s webhooks) and has to publish its results somewhere (e.g. GitHub’s commit statuses). So it only really works with hosted repos. Since each hosting service has a different API, each integration needs to be built individually. And it makes sense to integrate with GitHub first because it’s the most popular repo host.
- insomniacity 10y ago
  It's the most popular repo host on HN for sure, but think about all the private repos behind corporate firewalls etc!
  - happyslobro 10y ago
    Some of which are Github Enterprise :p
- happyslobro 10y ago
  Maybe server-side git hooks would do the trick? Can we assume that any "decent" git server will be able to run a bash script? A service could instruct the user to download a couple scripts and put them in .git/hooks. Or just copy and paste a wget command from within the repo root. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
- chriswarbo 10y ago
  > It needs to know when the repo is updated (e.g. GitHub’s webhooks) post-receive hooks work well for this. I use them to push changes from my laptop up to my server and GitHub (which I use as a free mirror). My server uses a post-receive hook to regenerate a HTML view of the repo. > has to publish its results somewhere (e.g. GitHub’s commit statuses) Git has really good email integration.

sytse 10y ago

FYI GitLab is considering integrating VersionEye in the interface