Full agreement with Steve.

On Friday, 9 May 2025 at 00:49:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Full agreement with Steve.

>> Politics flaring up again

Politics around software will likely get worse and GitHub is annoying me more and more with security theater.

I think the next time someone wants to make a big deal about it, you should let whoever make an officialish back up git service. And then not do things like disable the bugzilla while it's working

On Thursday, 8 May 2025 at 23:02:03 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Friday, 24 January 2025 at 16:55:41 UTC, matheus wrote:
>> ...
>
> I'd like to point out just another problem after browsing a few source code (Less than 4):
>
> "You have exceeded a secondary rate limit.
> Please wait a few minutes before you try again;
> in some cases this may take up to an hour."
>
> Looking around this message seems to a thing with this gh medium.
>
> Imagine in a future when you are all dispensable...
>
> Matheus.

Simple server that replicate D repos to another git service sounds like a simple nice project :)

On Friday, 9 May 2025 at 10:03:04 UTC, Serg wrote:
> ...
> Simple server that replicate D repos to another git service sounds like a simple nice project :)

It would but the problem here is another one, I think people shouldn't give too much power to entities. I did a research and gh has about 88% market share in this field, that's too much and people keep given more power to them, and with that they will do whatever they want, and before someone say that people will leave if they turn "evil" or something like that, they will not, because they are so dependent to their service that they will remain like it or not.

It's weird how a tool that was born to be decentralized became a tool in centralized place.

Well future will tell,

Matheus.

On Friday, 9 May 2025 at 11:37:40 UTC, matheus wrote:
> It's weird how a tool that was born to be decentralized became a tool in centralized place.
>
> Well future will tell,
>
> Matheus.

This is a common scenario :)
Windows and IE…
Now Chrome…

Seems like gravity laws are working in soft market as well
And bigger project are becoming only bigger..

That’s why if something gets some traction (khm khm Rust khm) most probably it will become only more popular

And that’s why popularity/traction is important

On 2025-01-25, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 24 January 2025 at 16:55:41 UTC, matheus wrote:
>> I'd like to know how would people would react if the repository was moved from the current to Gitlab or another medium?
>
> No, we should not be doing this.
>
>> To be honest I find "gh" pretty terrible, for example now you need to log in for silly things like:
>>
>> Search in a repository.
>> Read some comments.
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> Many online services are moving this way. We are just going to have to live with this.
>
> Note that we pay GH nothing for all the services we get. And we get a lot.
>
> And no guarantee gitlab does not do the same thing eventually.
>
>> And again it's owned by a company which is not regarded for good things, I just read the article about the usage of their AI for the destruction of Gaza.
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> Speaking for myself, we are here to write software, not participate in activism. As long as the service can perform the needs we have, how others use their service is nothing of my concern.
>
>> Another thing that I always think, is giving too much power to one entity, balance is good.
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> I don't think we would be in anywhere near as good shape if we hadn't relied on github for all these years. It was revolutionary in getting people to contribute to D.
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> I think we should keep GH as long as they do not make things unbearable. We have all the code, we can export all the PR data, etc. If we wanted to change services, it's doable. There's no need to go through that pain for almost no gain, when we are comfortable here.
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> We already know how much effort and pain it took to move from bugzilla to GH. We shouldn't be looking at other services now.
>
> -Steve

While I only browse here, for what it's worth, I sometimes make small contributions here and there, some software which has a big and I've had to fix it to get it working for me.

Minor 'inconvieniences' which get in the way of me contributing do stop me from bothering.  For a casual user, who can code, and may from time to time have a small contribution, a small increased cost of conveying that can make the difference between "its worth the effort" to "ahh, screw it, I'll keep it to myself".