I'm sorry, but having lived in the times where sourceforge was the old github, this strikes me as quire absurd.
Firstly: sourceforge was widely used and was also hosted – the architecture didn't really change.
Secondly: Github is simply the best thing that ever happened to OSS. It's a fantastic interface that allows you to:
- Immediately get a sense of the project: You know where to look and can quickly scan Stars, Issues, Checkins etc.
- Makes contributing a no-brainer: I never ever sent anyone a patch by email. With GH, it's basically more difficult NOT to contribute back.
- Makes forking easy: OSS projects often stagnate. Now, someone can fork the project, maybe update the dependencies and get it running again in half an hour or so. There's a graph right there showing you all the forks, so it's easy to figure out which one you want to trust.
- Makes discovery easy. I check the trending repositories every few days, and there's no better way to learn than to get lost reading other peoples' code.
- The whole industry of CI platforms etc. being given out for free to OSS projects was created around Github.
So I'm quite happy people are happy to "relinquish control of their data", considering I don't even know what that's supposed to mean in the context of OSS.
Firstly: sourceforge was widely used and was also hosted – the architecture didn't really change.
Secondly: Github is simply the best thing that ever happened to OSS. It's a fantastic interface that allows you to:
- Immediately get a sense of the project: You know where to look and can quickly scan Stars, Issues, Checkins etc.
- Makes contributing a no-brainer: I never ever sent anyone a patch by email. With GH, it's basically more difficult NOT to contribute back.
- Makes forking easy: OSS projects often stagnate. Now, someone can fork the project, maybe update the dependencies and get it running again in half an hour or so. There's a graph right there showing you all the forks, so it's easy to figure out which one you want to trust.
- Makes discovery easy. I check the trending repositories every few days, and there's no better way to learn than to get lost reading other peoples' code.
- The whole industry of CI platforms etc. being given out for free to OSS projects was created around Github.
So I'm quite happy people are happy to "relinquish control of their data", considering I don't even know what that's supposed to mean in the context of OSS.