Be realistic. Filling out forms to get CI runners means no serious users will be attracted. They can just go to GitLab instead. And even then, a migration wouldn’t be fully seamless.
Those are immediate show-stoppers before we get to contributor pool sizes and network effects.
My purist young self picked Gitorious over GitHub. I even vaguely remember the KDE presence there, so it was a trusted host with big(ish) betters on it. But it closed shop soon after, and that was a quick learned lesson.
I will be more intrigued by the first jj-native forge when it appears. I may even help alpha test it, as it may bring a breath of fresh air to the space, unless it’s going to be AI buzz-filled. In that case to the trash blocklist it will go.
Filling out forms to get CI runners means no serious users will be attracted.
I think this will have opposite effect. Only serious users will be willing to fill out forms and casual users will be put off by the bureaucracy. I agree that it is a downside though. In a perfect world, there would be no forms to fill in.
The problem with CI is that the internet is full of not-nice people who will use free compute to mine crypto. Gitlab had problems with this abuse and requires credit card details.
Be realistic. Filling out forms to get CI runners means no serious users will be attracted. They can just go to GitLab instead. And even then, a migration wouldn’t be fully seamless.
Those are immediate show-stoppers before we get to contributor pool sizes and network effects.
My purist young self picked Gitorious over GitHub. I even vaguely remember the KDE presence there, so it was a trusted host with big(ish) betters on it. But it closed shop soon after, and that was a quick learned lesson.
I will be more intrigued by the first jj-native forge when it appears. I may even help alpha test it, as it may bring a breath of fresh air to the space, unless it’s going to be AI buzz-filled. In that case to the
trashblocklist it will go.I think this will have opposite effect. Only serious users will be willing to fill out forms and casual users will be put off by the bureaucracy. I agree that it is a downside though. In a perfect world, there would be no forms to fill in.
The problem with CI is that the internet is full of not-nice people who will use free compute to mine crypto. Gitlab had problems with this abuse and requires credit card details.