Is GitHub still the best place to be the central point for our code, issues, and discussions?

[FDelporte]

Hello

The world is changing at light speed. We want to stay far away from any political discussion, but we can't ignore that relying on a big corporate system like GitHub can cause conflict in the (near?) future. On the one hand, I can't imagine that GitHub would disappear someday. Still, on the other hand, I see disturbing messages about countries being blocked from accessing it, persons and organizations being abandoned for unclear reasons, etc, so I'm getting a bit worried.

I love GitHub because it's totally free and provides fantastic tools for hosting the Pi4J sources and building the artifacts. But at this point, Codeberg looks like a better alternative.

Thanks for your feedback.
Frank

[alirezaalavi87]

We want to see more and more important FOSS projects move to codeberg and FOSS infrastructure.

FOSS software shouldn't be relying on corporate grabage.

[FDelporte]

I didn't dive fully into Codeberg yet, but the first problem I see is that a self-hosted or paid service is needed to replace GitHub Actions. Correct?

[alirezaalavi87]

Yes.

[FDelporte]

Sorry, made a mistake by editing the question, and lost two votes for "move completely"

[Ir3nicuz]

At most mirroring it to other platforms. The world is complicated enough. Standadization is essential for complex systems. Spreading across different providers just increase overall complexity. Think of the explosion of propretary game launchers....

[FDelporte]

Closing the discussion, will investigate if I can setup an automatic mirror.

[FDelporte]

No need to investigate... @eitch to the rescue! ;-)
Mirrors are available on https://git.eitchnet.ch/pi4j