[sf-lug] News that Microsoft is Buying GitHub (cleaner format)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting aaronco36 (aaronco36 at SDF.ORG):

> Indeed, SF-LUG's own Rick M recently posted on another listserve [5]
> the similar idea to just move off of GitHub and to "jump ship" onto
> GitLab, as follows:
> 
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> 
> [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub
> 
> For years, I've been politely telling representatives & users of
> open source projects (Void Linux, many others) 'Hey, you might want
> to reconsider outsourcing your entire source code repos to GitHub,
> and consider instead deploying instead one of many actually open
> source, self-hosted workalikes such as GitLab.'
> 
> I'm betting they'll see nothing wrong with outsourcing to a
> proprietary-software firm run by people they don't know and have no
> reason to trust, based on this news. I'm glad it works for them.
> 
> Did I mention GitLab? ;->
> 
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It's subsequently been pointed out to me that the GitLab codebase is a
Ruby on Rails Webapp, which means it will have severe scalability limits
and require a huge amount of RAM just to get off the ground.  (I was
mislead by the Wikipedia page mentioning only that the codebase is in
Ruby with a small amount of Go, but Rails is nowhere mentioned.)

There may be and probably are other GitHub workalikes that lack this
drawback.  (This is not an area I'm particularly familiar with.)