Notices tagged with gitorious
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Aug-2022 12:53:18 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I'm starting to wonder whether operating a shared #code-hosting platform is only possible with sponsorship. #Gitorious collapsed because their paid hosting couldn't cover their costs (which includes the cost of free hosting). I don't believe #Github ever publicly released figures, but I do remember hearing a rumor that they were not profitable before #Microsoft purchased them. #Bitbucket still persists, but #Atlassian has made so many changes to their offerings that IMO, using their platform is putting everything that touches it at risk. #SourceForge went to all sorts of dangerous extremes to try to monetize the huge number of repositories they host (most of which appear to be residue of projects that have either died or moved their active repos elsewhere).
#Darcs_Hub ( #Darcs ), #The_Nest ( #Pijul ), and #ChiselApp ( #Fossil ) are all too small to experience the tremendous cost factors. -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 12:43:16 UTC Strypey
@dredmorbius ah! The GitLab company was operating a GitLab hosting service called GitHost. I don't know whether they set it up or acquired it (as they did with #Gitorious), but either way, they decided to shut it down, which happened at the end of last month.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2019 10:15:22 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@musicman @strypey I don't know if #Github sold themselves because they were running out of money, but just a few years ago, freedom-focused projects that did not use GH because of its proprietary secret sauce faced a rushed move when a less-proprietary competitor called #Gitorious closed. Many of these other platforms were not well-known until that event.