1. [OT] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jun 04, 2018
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https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
-Greg
2. Re: [OT] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Posted by _tom (admin) Jun 04, 2018
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The good news is that Greg has shown exceptional talent in moving repositories. When the need comes, he can move the source-code to a Mercurial repository.
_tom
3. Re: [OT] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 04, 2018
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If necessary we could stay with git but move back to bitbucket.
Or go to gitlabs.
4. Re: [OT] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Posted by jpartridge Jun 04, 2018
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Another option, I suppose...
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/microsoft-acquires-github/
5. Re: [OT] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jun 04, 2018
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- Last edited Jun 05, 2018
My main motivation for moving to GitHub was that it's a social platform that would get us more exposure. BitBucket doesn't provide the same sort of social concepts as GitHub.
GitLab may be the best choice if we choose to jump ship from GitHub. It has free cloud-hosted and local-hosted options and it still provides a lot of the social look-and-feel.
But for now, I say we wait it out and see what happens. The deal won't even be finalized until the end of the year. It might not be a bad thing after all (I'm trying to stay optimistic.)
Here's a list of all the git-based code hosting offerings I could find. Some are nice. Some are okay.
Name | Language | License | Cloud-hosted? | Local-hosted? |
---|---|---|---|---|
GitHub | Ruby | Proprietary | Free | Paid |
BitBucket | Python | Proprietary | Free | Paid |
GitLab | Ruby/Go | Community | Free | Free |
TeamHub | Unknown | Proprietary | Free | None |
Gitea | Golang | MIT license | None | Free |
Gogs | Golang | MIT license | None | Free |
GitBucket | Scala | Apache | None | Free |
Pagure | Python | GPLv2 | Unknown | Free |
RhodeCode | Python | AGPLv3 | Paid | Free |
Beanstalk | Unknown | Proprietary | Paid | None |
Edit: added Pagure
-Greg
6. Re: [OT] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Jun 05, 2018
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7. Re: [OT] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Jun 05, 2018
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MS were clearly waiting for Euphoria to make the leap.
Cheers
Chris
8. Re: [OT] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jun 05, 2018
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https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/05/gitlab-ultimate-and-gold-free-for-education-and-open-source/
-Greg