As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus.

For example, Github is the most popular place to store your project code and we all know, who owns it. And not to forget that sketchy AI training on every line of your code. Don’t we have alternatives? Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want.

Also, Crowdin is very popular in terms of software (and docs) translation. Even Privacy Guides and The New Oil use Crowdin, even though we have FLOSS Weblate, that you can easily self-host or use public instances.

So, my question is: if you are building a FLOSS / privacy related project, why using proprietary and privacy invasive tools?

  • taladar
    5·
    6 months ago

    Can you name an open platform that actually does distribute PRs and issues? I know there were a few that tried but I mean one that actually succeeded and is usable by people who just want to report a bug?

    Also, your issues and pull requests are much more likely to be lost in your self-hosted one project instance than on GitHub if anything happens to you.

      • taladar
        4·
        6 months ago

        Forgefed seems to be ActivityPub based which, judging by Lemmy, doesn’t solve the redundancy issue at all, it just allows you to interact with the content hosted in a single place from your own single place, giving you two single points of failure and two points where you can be tracked instead of one. This is not really the same kind of distributed as git repositories.

          • taladar
            61·
            6 months ago

            The term “single point of failure” means that only that point has to fail for the entire system to become unusable. You can easily have more than one of those in a system though.

              • taladar
                3·
                6 months ago

                Yeah, the whole commenting won’t work if the server where the repo is hosted fails or the server where the person has an account. There is no redundancy.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
      11·
      6 months ago

      The pull request model is broken so why care about its replication? Send patches to a mailing list, ask for Gerrit, hopefully ForgeFed can be a thing sooner than later.

      • taladar
        11·
        6 months ago

        Talking about PRs being broken and then bringing up email, just about the most broken technology still in wide-spread use, is sort of ironic.

        • toastal@lemmy.ml
          11·
          6 months ago

          It’s as broken as you make it—but if the Google started top posting for everyhing & everything is done thru the web, of course the UX is going to be even worse than it already. I have accepted patches by mail, & honestly it was easier (small changes, with no feedback required).

          But your comment ignored Gerrit, ForgeFed… you could use a decentralized sync system like Radicle.