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opinions sought: costs & benefits of switching to self-hosted Git server?

Open mbutterick opened this issue 2 years ago • 17 comments

  1. For those who have firsthand experience with running a self-hosted Git server — pros? Cons? Is there a solution for CI?

  2. For everyone — what would be the negative impact on you if pollen (and all my other software) were moved to this hypothetical new server? I would not be changing the license or anything else. Just the server where the canonical source is hosted.

  3. If that happened, I would be open to leaving pollen-users here at GitHub. Though I don’t have a strong feeling either way.

As for why. (Not that it matters.) I was willing to reserve judgment after the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub. Since then I have found myself holding my nose at most of the so-called improvements.

This week I tried Copilot, which is the most putrid yet — you install a ~keylogger~ Visual Studio plugin on your machine and get terrible code in return. It seems inevitable that in the same way social-media sites rapidly evolved into funnels for personal data to be sold to advertisers, the main business of GitHub will be collecting code for their AI training and other collateral purposes.

I also think that Copilot is a massive violation of the open-source licenses I use. I further question whether I can even meaningfully comply with the open-source licenses of underlying software I incorporate while hosting code on GitHub, because I’m feeding that code into the maw of something that will violate the license. (No, I don’t literally expect to be sued, but the handwaving around these issues is far from encouraging.)

mbutterick avatar Jun 24 '22 20:06 mbutterick