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Please just don't. GitHub is a proprietary service, using it as a mere free code hosting is nothing wrong, pay it for it's services on sale again it's nothing w
by kkfx 5y ago
Please just don't. GitHub is a proprietary service, using it as a mere free code hosting is nothing wrong, pay it for it's services on sale again it's nothing wrong, but develop something to ease it's usage is:
- first you might loose your hard work at any point in time just because something change on the GH side, being not a community they have no reasons to be cooperative nor to advise third parties;
- second you make a proprietary service more appealing for free, so you do some voluntary unpaid work for them, and at the same time ease life of others who might then want to be on GH and GH specifically not "just others who offer similar things".
Until GitHub is used just as a free code hosting and development happen outside the platform it's a mere URL from the point of view of a FLOSS community, today the official repo is hosted there, tomorrow will be on SourceHut, another day on SourceForge, than Savannah, than GitLab, it's just a matter of follow project website news feed or ML or whatever and pull/push to the current URL. Being tied means being tied. If you need to move a day even if possible it will have a certain cost, perhaps a high one.
Generally speaking I'm deeply against ANY FLOSS project who act as a bridge to some third party proprietary service, not because of GNU philosophy but just because of the above mentioned reasons. Internet was born decentralized for a reason, that reason is still valid today, perhaps more than ever.