> replacing github with hosted gitlab would simply replicate the problem How so? A hosted gitlab instance makes you immune from the administrative whims of any

> replacing github with hosted gitlab would simply replicate the problem How so? A hosted gitlab instance makes you immune from the administrative whims of any particular corporation. It's possible that gitlab the company stops maintaining the free editions but that's not very much different from other pieces of software going unmaintained. All the older project hosting software suites like sourceforge/gforge/savannah are still available. Git itself is very easy to use in a distribute manner, but I guess some form of distributed issue tracker is missing?