As someone who has never really used github (I have for a few minor FOSS contributions… very short touchpoints) but use self hosted git…
… what is github even fucking offering???
From my naive perspective it’s a light touch web ui on git?
I don’t understand what gravity well it provides… what escape velocity is required to bail on it.
From my naive perspective, I’d have as much allegiance to ot as I would be to an ftp server. Not happy? NP, I’ll take 17 minutes to move to 1 of 9999999 other equivalent services, or take 95 minutes to self host a functional equivalent.
There is a lot offered on the enterprise side. My company uses GH Actions for CI/CD, uses GitHub for OAUTH, it hosts our git LFS server, and it’s where the slop lovers in the executive and management offices get their copilot fix. That doesn’t cover half of it really, but it’s a lot more than a git forge. I despise it nonetheless and think all of these use cases have better tools available
As someone who has never really used github (I have for a few minor FOSS contributions… very short touchpoints) but use self hosted git…
… what is github even fucking offering???
From my naive perspective it’s a light touch web ui on git?
I don’t understand what gravity well it provides… what escape velocity is required to bail on it.
From my naive perspective, I’d have as much allegiance to ot as I would be to an ftp server. Not happy? NP, I’ll take 17 minutes to move to 1 of 9999999 other equivalent services, or take 95 minutes to self host a functional equivalent.
There is a lot offered on the enterprise side. My company uses GH Actions for CI/CD, uses GitHub for OAUTH, it hosts our git LFS server, and it’s where the slop lovers in the executive and management offices get their copilot fix. That doesn’t cover half of it really, but it’s a lot more than a git forge. I despise it nonetheless and think all of these use cases have better tools available