I hate github, tell me about cool projects and apps that is hosted on alternative platforms (Not mirrored). (biglemmowski.win)

submitted 8 months ago by Zen@biglemmowski.win to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 67 points 8 months ago

Preface: I appreciate the sentiment, fuck Microsoft.

Projects typically aren't "hosted" on code repositories like GitHub.
Because the underlying version control technology, git, is meant to be distributed - it's super weird to draw that line in the sand. It's like saying "show me TXT files written with SublimeText, I hate Notepad++!"
I get that you might want to, like, judge a developer for using github? But, like... features are features. Build minutes are build minutes. If you fork a repo and use GitLab to manage it, does that make the project better?

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 8 months ago

If you want to contribute to a project developed on GitHub, you need to have a GitHub account. So it does matter.

[-] anzo@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago

Actually, you can send the diff patches by email/ pastebin/ gitlab/ etc. It's up to the main developer to take your contribution seriously, given the level of annoyance you might be presenting. Same happens in the other direction, you can host your code on sourcehut, but many junior devs could be repelled by the old school ux.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

I dont get how that works, you mail those lines with all those

+line
+something
-something

And they can like transform that into git and have it work as an actual patch?

[-] Snarwin@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

This website explains the process: https://git-send-email.io/

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's called a diff and git was designed with exactly this workflow in mind because it's how the Linux kernel has been developed for decades. GitHub is just a new fangled way to social network-ize the git workflow.