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> I am not a web developer so that can partially explain my struggle with fabric, Django and multitude of webdev and devops modules that you use. GitHub is not

> I am not a web developer so that can partially explain my struggle with fabric, Django and multitude of webdev and devops modules that you use. GitHub is not an app store. You can't expect to "install" a software as a service's code base. Open sourcing a project is opening it up to engineers, providing a self-hosted option on the other hand should be an easy to install alternative that probably requires another full-time engineer to handle as it needs to come with ability to upgrade, get logs, support and documents...

tmzt 14y ago
Seems like there's a need for a cloud infrastructure/language independent packaging format, to build a "github of installable applications" Maybe container images that can also be used as bootable images?
- ryen 14y ago
  > Seems like there's a need for a cloud infrastructure/language independent packaging format, to build a "github of installable applications" I think Chef and Puppet try to fill that role, somewhat Edit: actually, this recent HN discussion looks promising https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5392041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5392041
- jzelinskie 14y ago
  Something like JuJu?