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I can say that I've chosen not to bother when submitting a fix requires me to stray away from GitHub, and doubly so when it doesn't use a PR/MR workflow. There
by Philpax 1y ago
I can say that I've chosen not to bother when submitting a fix requires me to stray away from GitHub, and doubly so when it doesn't use a PR/MR workflow. There are only so many hours in the day, and I don't have the patience to deal with unconventional workflows when there are other things I could be doing with my time.
For projects that I'd be interested in being a long-term contributor to, this is obviously different, but you don't become a long-term contributor without first dealing with the short-term, and if you make that experience a pain, I'm unlikely to stick around.
A big part of this is the friction in signing up; I hope federated forges become more of a thing, and I can carry my identity around and start using alternate forges without having to store yet another password in my password manager.
- Handler9246 1y agoSad we're at a stage where people don't contribute to free software projects because the service it's hosted on isn't the proprietary, corporate giant. "Friction in signing up" being a big part for you is also weird, considering basically all free software GitHub alternatives (Gitea, GitLab, Forgejo) support SSO via GitHub.
- encom 1y agoRequiring a Microsoft account, and handing over my phone number is extreme friction in my book.
- BenjiWiebe 1y agoJust checked, and it looks like my GitHub account is not linked to my Microsoft account, nor does it have my phone number. I just signed out and started the signup flow. It allows me to use an email on my own domain, and I got as far as verifying my email before I canceled the flow, and there hadn't been any requirement for phone number of Microsoft account yet.