2025-09-02 14:48 UTC
@geospacedman@mastodon.social @defuneste@fosstodon.org yeah.. momentum is a hard thing to change.
I was also GitLab-curious when it was the best alternative, but was always a bit unsure of what to make of their enterprise/open-source split. With Forgejo I think the story is a lot less ambiguous.
Still, it’s hard to get people to move away from where all the action is. I think real change is only likely if we can see some major R packages move. The r-lib org seems like a great candidate 🤔
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@defuneste@fosstodon.org 2025-09-02 14:59
@dgkf@fosstodon.org @geospacedman@mastodon.social My bet is on MS pricing us out 😜 I also strongly think that we should be "local first" ie we should not replace "only works on my machine" by "only works on a GH runner". I used gitlab when my university (technically a research infrastructure) provided an instance and vastly prefered "jobs" to GH actions.
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@geospacedman@mastodon.social 2025-09-02 15:14
@dgkf@fosstodon.org @defuneste@fosstodon.org Yeah, there is basically now Just That One R Company and everyone follows what they do. Oh wait, aren't they pivoting to Python....