[Osmf-talk] Hosting OpenStreetMap source repositories on free software platforms

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:49:43AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> I understand the sentiment, I am however not sure if the number A of "people
> just waiting to contribute to OSM but unable to because they reject GitHub"
> is larger than or even equal to the number B of "people who have a GitHub
> account and are willing and able to help out in OSM coding but who don't
> want the hassle of signing up to, and learning the ropes of, yet another
> free GitHub clone".
> 
> I would also like to point out that using a self-hosted GitHub clone will
> cost us a non-trivial amount of money in maintaining it. This money has to
> be earned through donations and memberships, which more often than not come
> from large corporations like Microsoft (owners of GitHub), on whom we depend
> more the more money we spend on stuff.

That all and setting up your own gitlab instance is simple as typing
"apt-get install gitlab-ce". As long as you dont have to coordinate
between others peoples ideas running your own gitlab is just
a matter of installing security updates. And i am maintaining
gitlab instances as a paid contractor - and you dont want to get into
the deep waters of "But gitlab can do this and that, and can we have
a kubernetes runner". Your complexity explodes the moment you open
that can of worms.

I am running a gitlab for myself and all my github stuff is just a push-through
mirror for accessibility issues (It would be possible to clone directly
from my gitlab instance, but noone even knows it exists).

So for me github is just a mirror of my stuff must like "Yahoo" in the
early 90ies. For oldtimers like me who were already on the 'net when the clickable 
part of the it was invented - Yahoo used to be a link list as search
engines were not yet invented. This is the cause for its name
"Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" - Thats github today.

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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