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Google is a giant single point of failure. Others would rush to fill the vacuum, but it'd be a brutal few months (years) while we all relied upon Bing. Is the

Google is a giant single point of failure. Others would rush to fill the vacuum, but it'd be a brutal few months (years) while we all relied upon Bing. Is there any GitHub-esque outfit waiting in the wings that provides free OSS hosting?

Twirrim 12y ago
https://bitbucket.org/ https://bitbucket.org/ https://www.codebasehq.com/ https://www.codebasehq.com/ https://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/ https://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ I must admit, I rather like bitbucket, you can get free private repositories with them too.
- smoe 12y ago
  I can really recommend the open source gitlab for self hosting repos. I have been running it on a ec2 micro instance for 5-10 people over years without a single problem. https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq
  - jessaustin 12y ago
    Now there is a FOSS project one might have expected to dogfood. Nothing beats free... b^)
    - atomaka 12y ago
      They do: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/. They maintain a Github mirror to allow for easier contribution. Github is more than just a version control software; it's a community.
- sytse 12y ago
  Thanks for mentioning GitLab, we offer unlimited private repo's and collaborators and an on-premises version too.
  - petepete 12y ago
    We've been happily using GitLab for months now, can't recommend it highly enough. If there was an open source bug tracking/ticket app that played nicely with it I'd switch all of our teams over to it sooner rather than later.
    - technomancy 12y ago
      GitLab is great for lots of projects; especially internal ones. The inability to control your splash page makes it less than ideal for OSS projects trying to be welcoming to newbies though. (When you navigate to a project page, instead of displaying the readme, it just shows recent commits, etc, which is nice for people working on the project but completely irrelevant to end users.)
    - hobarrera 12y ago
      It has it's own issue tracking, as well as wikies and everything else github offers.
      - petepete 12y ago
        It does but GitLabs ticket capabilities are very, very basic.
- colechristensen 12y ago
  I've tried a few and as far as I can tell they're all pretty good but not quite there.
- JohnTHaller 12y ago
  There's also SourceForge, which hosts SVN, Git, Hg, etc and is the largest host of FLOSS applications (Git is the largest host of FLOSS components and web code).
  - mcphage 12y ago
    I'm not sure if it's still the case, but SourceForge used to have an approval process to get a new project / repo set up, which defeats a lot of the utility of GitHub for being able to store whatever projects you want to toss up there.
    - JohnTHaller 12y ago
      I don't recall that ever being the case. And I've used SourceForge since 2005.
      - tom9729 12y ago
        I remember it being the case in 2007/2008. This is the closest thing I could find to a citation. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4439/Getting-started-with-a-SourceForge-project http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4439/Getting-started-wit... "To create a new project you simply register at SourceForge and then submit a new project request. Most projects are approved immediately, and you'll typically get an email notifying you of the approval in ~ 24 hours "
        JohnTHaller 12y ago
        It might have happened between when I'd originally registered and the present. It does make sense as SourceForge was providing free FTP uploads for binaries at the time and the automated tools to handle abuse were pretty poor. Lots of folks were looking to abuse it for bandwidth and malware distribution. The tools are better now, which is one reason Github finally added binary releases last year.
volent 12y ago
If Google goes down, go with duckduckgo instead of bing please :)
- pjc50 12y ago
  They're an anonymising frontend to bing with a number of extra search utilities.
  - josephlord 12y ago
    That is an incorrect massive oversimplification from what I understand: https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
  - somenewaccount 12y ago
    No, they're not. They have their own crawler and everything.
hansjorg 12y ago
There's also Gitorious: https://gitorious.org/ https://gitorious.org/ Used by projects like Qt, GnuTLS, Haiku and CMake.
Demiurge 12y ago
I really like bitbucket. They don't have as many features, but free private repos, unlimited academic repos, means I'm not actually a GitHub user, except for the OSS projects that insist on GitHub.

Twirrim 12y ago

https://bitbucket.org/ https://bitbucket.org/ https://www.codebasehq.com/ https://www.codebasehq.com/ https://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/ https://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ I must admit, I rather like bitbucket, you can get free private repositories with them too.

smoe 12y ago
I can really recommend the open source gitlab for self hosting repos. I have been running it on a ec2 micro instance for 5-10 people over years without a single problem. https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq
- jessaustin 12y ago
  Now there is a FOSS project one might have expected to dogfood. Nothing beats free... b^)
  - atomaka 12y ago
    They do: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/. They maintain a Github mirror to allow for easier contribution. Github is more than just a version control software; it's a community.
sytse 12y ago
Thanks for mentioning GitLab, we offer unlimited private repo's and collaborators and an on-premises version too.
- petepete 12y ago
  We've been happily using GitLab for months now, can't recommend it highly enough. If there was an open source bug tracking/ticket app that played nicely with it I'd switch all of our teams over to it sooner rather than later.
  - technomancy 12y ago
    GitLab is great for lots of projects; especially internal ones. The inability to control your splash page makes it less than ideal for OSS projects trying to be welcoming to newbies though. (When you navigate to a project page, instead of displaying the readme, it just shows recent commits, etc, which is nice for people working on the project but completely irrelevant to end users.)
  - hobarrera 12y ago
    It has it's own issue tracking, as well as wikies and everything else github offers.
    - petepete 12y ago
      It does but GitLabs ticket capabilities are very, very basic.
colechristensen 12y ago
I've tried a few and as far as I can tell they're all pretty good but not quite there.
JohnTHaller 12y ago
There's also SourceForge, which hosts SVN, Git, Hg, etc and is the largest host of FLOSS applications (Git is the largest host of FLOSS components and web code).
- mcphage 12y ago
  I'm not sure if it's still the case, but SourceForge used to have an approval process to get a new project / repo set up, which defeats a lot of the utility of GitHub for being able to store whatever projects you want to toss up there.
  - JohnTHaller 12y ago
    I don't recall that ever being the case. And I've used SourceForge since 2005.
    - tom9729 12y ago
      I remember it being the case in 2007/2008. This is the closest thing I could find to a citation. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4439/Getting-started-with-a-SourceForge-project http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4439/Getting-started-wit... "To create a new project you simply register at SourceForge and then submit a new project request. Most projects are approved immediately, and you'll typically get an email notifying you of the approval in ~ 24 hours "
      - JohnTHaller 12y ago
        It might have happened between when I'd originally registered and the present. It does make sense as SourceForge was providing free FTP uploads for binaries at the time and the automated tools to handle abuse were pretty poor. Lots of folks were looking to abuse it for bandwidth and malware distribution. The tools are better now, which is one reason Github finally added binary releases last year.

volent 12y ago

If Google goes down, go with duckduckgo instead of bing please :)

pjc50 12y ago
They're an anonymising frontend to bing with a number of extra search utilities.
- josephlord 12y ago
  That is an incorrect massive oversimplification from what I understand: https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
- somenewaccount 12y ago
  No, they're not. They have their own crawler and everything.

hansjorg 12y ago

There's also Gitorious: https://gitorious.org/ https://gitorious.org/ Used by projects like Qt, GnuTLS, Haiku and CMake.

Demiurge 12y ago

I really like bitbucket. They don't have as many features, but free private repos, unlimited academic repos, means I'm not actually a GitHub user, except for the OSS projects that insist on GitHub.