Need free long-term git hosting

Suren Nihalani snihalani4 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 22:04:46 UTC 2022


Few questions for the community:
1. How do we expect free git hosting to continue to work without avenues
for stable revenue generation?
2. Is non open source software hosting on github still something that
should be moved off of?

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 1:14 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2022-07-02 15:51:30 -0400 (-0400), Jason Yundt wrote:
> [...]
> > If you want to make sure that those things don’t disappear, then you
> should
> > make sure that they’re in your repo. If we remove from that list
> everything
> > that could reasonably be kept in the main repo, we’re left with:
> [...]
> > 3. pull requests/merge requests/patches,
> [...]
>
> Users of Gerrit Code Review have their review interactions stored in
> the project's repository as git "notes" and named refs, so this is
> not necessarily a separate entity from the commits which eventually
> merge to branches. (And to be clear, Gerrit is also free/libre open
> source and absolutely something communities can run themselves or
> find hosted deployments thereof.)
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
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