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Git Project Manager / Commission Open Source

git is a Distributed Concurrent Versions System
GitHub is a Centralized git host
Can we do without Github™?
Git Project Manager

`git` is a Distributed Concurrent Versions System

GitHub is a Centralized `git` host

Can we do without Github™?

Betteridge's law

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states:

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

. . .

Here the answer is YES!

Linux (only mail)
GHC used a self hosted instance of phabricator + trac
many others I don't know

All right, we can, but should we?

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GitHub™

GitHub™: Social Network

user management & trust
discoverability

GitHub™: its free!

If you're not paying for it, you're the product being sold.

$$: Pay for private repositories

GitHub™: Features!!!

From their website (in that order):

Code Review: comment diffs, approve, refuse, etc…
Project Management: issues, milestones, dashboard, etc…
Integrations: travis, slack, etc…
Team Management: access rights, community guidelines, etc…
Social Coding: follow, explore, share, etc…
Documentation: github pages, wiki, …à
Code Hosting: all your code in one place, tree view, blame view, etc…

GitHub™: Metas

Most GitHub™ features put data in their own internal closed representation:

Issues
Comments
Pages
Pull Request & review
Wiki

Note there are tools to export them. Ex: migrate to Gitlab

GitHub™ is great today but can suck tomorrow

bloatware remember digg, readitlater? think about the latest reddit design?
payware You rely on our feature, but now, we want you to move or to pay. Fair ;)
crapware Nothing works as expected unless you pay: Twitter streaming API?
dieware Remember Friendfeed? Google Reader™?
etc…

GitHub™ force all your team member to use GitHub™

Were you already forced to:

use PowerPoint? Excel? Word?
code in PHP? in Java?
work on windows? Harder need to ssh to UNIX machines?
use notepad instead of vim?
use Eclipse instead of emacs?
etc…

Why? Those tools don't rely on OPEN STANDARD

REAL STORY @WORK: github dashboard is slow & terrible for an organizer.

Why you shouldn't rely too much on GitHub™?

Github™ is great to get you started:
- nothing to install
- only high level interface
- everythin well explained
- github is really a great product
The hidden price to pay:
- use closed source services
- give freely many private infos
- you must TRUST github for privacy, private account

We should do our best not to rely on any central product

self host? Gitlab-ee, Gitlab-ce, => HUGE WARN TO UPDATE, fix a security bug but also add a bunch of new features (anti-features?)
meta data hosted in DB
if another use clone your repo, it doesn't get all metas of your project:

`git clone` misses

code
issues
reviews
comments
wiki/doc
hooks
web pages

Decentralized Web

Decentralized Authentication: IndieAuth

one of your online identities = one domaine name
serve a page with all your online identity providers and username
- google
- twitter
- etc…
- but also your GPG keys (see keybase)

Mainly you OWN & CONTROLE your identity and the informations about it.

Decentralized Comments: Webmention

you host your comment
a 3rd party website can decide to show it in its comment section

Dentralized Web

Your content is yours (prevent site death, change it, delete it…)
Better connection:
- messages can go to all your services
- use open standards
You are in control
- post anything, any format, no monitoring, share links.

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