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Interesting, and also...a lie? Or he thinks the 250,000 projects migrated to gitlab within 24 hours of the news that Microsoft was going anywhere near GitHub is

Interesting, and also...a lie? Or he thinks the 250,000 projects migrated to gitlab within 24 hours of the news that Microsoft was going anywhere near GitHub is a small number.

bovermyer 8y ago
That IS a small number. Consider the context.
- sdesol 8y ago
  Yeah I really think people are trying to read way too much into things. The only true bellwether in my opinion, are influential open source projects leaving GitHub for something else, like self hosting with GitLab/Bitbucket/etc. If nodejs, google, and other big names/organizations decides to leave, then I think it is time for Microsoft to worry.
  - superflyguy 8y ago
    Gnome, Debian and gimp have all left.
    - sdesol 8y ago
      Were they ever hosted on GitHub?
- mythrwy 8y ago
  Not for 24 hours it isn't.
  - penagwin 8y ago
    Right, but I doubt it'll continue at such a rate. This kind of stuff happens a lot (netflix making it harder to use VPNs, the recent facebook stuff, etc), "mass of people leave" but in reality it's a very small group, who are rather loud. Plus, mirroring isn't the same as leaving (IMO). To me it's more of a precaution.
    - superflyguy 8y ago
      Right, I mean it can't continue at that rate forever - the numbers don't support that hypothesis.
crtasm 8y ago
I wonder how many people/organisations own those 250k projects, I assume it is far less than 250k.
- skinnymuch 8y ago
  Yeah. For example, I just put up and am putting up a few more repos of old code I had lying around. With those I have over 15 repos on GitHub. Unfortunately, but also not uncommon at all, the most stars any repo has is 5 with most having none. So, no repos that are material to GitHub.
skinnymuch 8y ago
Is the number 250k projects (are projects repos?) in first 24 hours? I thought it was topping 100K repos imported to Gitlab at some point on Tuesday. This is from Gitlab giving those numbers themselves in a post that was linked from here. The first hint of Microsoft and GitHub was around 6 pm EDT/11 pm UTC on Sunday. And like others are saying. Even if that is the case, it isn’t a huge number with context of Github’s size.

Interesting, and also...a lie? Or he thinks the 250,000 projects migrated to gitlab within 24 hours of the news that Microsoft was going anywhere near GitHub is a small number.

bovermyer 8y ago

That IS a small number. Consider the context.

sdesol 8y ago
Yeah I really think people are trying to read way too much into things. The only true bellwether in my opinion, are influential open source projects leaving GitHub for something else, like self hosting with GitLab/Bitbucket/etc. If nodejs, google, and other big names/organizations decides to leave, then I think it is time for Microsoft to worry.
- superflyguy 8y ago
  Gnome, Debian and gimp have all left.
  - sdesol 8y ago
    Were they ever hosted on GitHub?
mythrwy 8y ago
Not for 24 hours it isn't.
- penagwin 8y ago
  Right, but I doubt it'll continue at such a rate. This kind of stuff happens a lot (netflix making it harder to use VPNs, the recent facebook stuff, etc), "mass of people leave" but in reality it's a very small group, who are rather loud. Plus, mirroring isn't the same as leaving (IMO). To me it's more of a precaution.
  - superflyguy 8y ago
    Right, I mean it can't continue at that rate forever - the numbers don't support that hypothesis.

crtasm 8y ago

I wonder how many people/organisations own those 250k projects, I assume it is far less than 250k.

skinnymuch 8y ago
Yeah. For example, I just put up and am putting up a few more repos of old code I had lying around. With those I have over 15 repos on GitHub. Unfortunately, but also not uncommon at all, the most stars any repo has is 5 with most having none. So, no repos that are material to GitHub.

skinnymuch 8y ago

Is the number 250k projects (are projects repos?) in first 24 hours? I thought it was topping 100K repos imported to Gitlab at some point on Tuesday. This is from Gitlab giving those numbers themselves in a post that was linked from here. The first hint of Microsoft and GitHub was around 6 pm EDT/11 pm UTC on Sunday. And like others are saying. Even if that is the case, it isn’t a huge number with context of Github’s size.