Considering to move from a selfhosted gitea to Github with flockingbird. Sourcecode, issues, wiki/documentation.
* Discoverability: We're just more visible on GH than on "some random website".
* Participation barrier: you probably have a GH account, but certainly no account yet on our instance.
* Defacto standard: external systems like CI, support etc all require github.
It feels a bit like giving in, but the benefits seem to outweigh the idealistic stance.
What do you think?
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What about mirroring your repo to github (like the linux kernel maintainers do it) and have a bot that generates git send-email patches that they can send to you?
Otherwise what about selfhosted Gitlab?
@sp1rit Thanks!
Indeed, mirroring solves the "discoverability" part of the problem. We had that set up. But it introduces new problems.
The "Participation" becomes more complex: where do people post, update and search for issues? Where to update the wiki? How&where to update a PR? How to authorize push acces, etc?
We'll still need a canonical, clearly marketed, "single source of truth".
Should that be github? Or should everyone be directed to the selfhosted version, away from Github?