Re: [Flightgear-devel] Suggestion for a 737-family repository in FG GitLab

[TheFGFSEagle <the...@gm...>]

Speaking for me personally, if I wanted to collab on some coding project
but it were on another platform than GItLab or GitHub, I would seriously
reconsider actually participating - simply because that's what I'm used to,
and what I can work fastest with, whereas with a new platform, I would have
to 1. create and maintain yet another account somewhere (i.e., check for
new inbox messages etc.) 2. spend time getting used to all the quirks and
features of that new platform, including learning to deal with some
features that might not be present compared to GitLab / GitHub.

Am Mo., 1. Dez. 2025 um 17:14 Uhr schrieb Israel Emmanuel <
sri...@gm...>:

> Github and Gitlab may not be your personal preference, and that's totally
> up to you, but it's hard to deny that larger platforms like Github and
> GItlab make for easier collaboration because people already know how to use
> these things. The people who would be contributing to this project, except
> Xavier, have all been using Github for their efforts before things took a
> turn for the worse on my old 737. Asides from that, putting it on a
> relatively obscure platform wrecks discoverability. Arguments could be made
> that other options like ForgeJo *should* be the better choice overall,
> but we've got to work with the things presented to us right now, and I just
> don't think they work in ForgeJo's favor.
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM Nia via Flightgear-devel <
> fli...@li...> wrote:
>
>> On 12/1/25 16:33, James Turner wrote:
>> > However, in terms of collaborating on
>> > development, ease of ‘everything’  is helpful (and typically GitHub /
>> > GitLab score highly here, with other providers on a decreasing scale).
>>
>> Well... Github is taking a big step back now... too much stuff I don't
>> need that gets in the way, stuff they want to force on me like the AI
>> stuff... things I can't disable to get them out of the way.
>>
>> And Gitlab is at times really bad to use on a slow train connection...
>> like some times I need just 10 minutes MITM attacker captcha solving,
>> just to log in!
>>
>> Forgejo (the software that runs on codeberg) is like Github 5-10 years
>> ago before the enshittification started. Nice and usable... and light
>> weight.
>>
>> > So, in terms of reducing the number of forks, I’d *prefer* GitHub/
>> > GitLab/etc but you can do what you want since in the end … people can
>> > always fork it. We’re just very close to:
>> > https://xkcd.com/927/ <https://xkcd.com/927/>
>>
>> But pleeeease? Just ONE MORE fork would fix this! /s
>>
>>
>> ... putting it anywhere but a central repo would just add another
>> standard... cause it's just a matter of time till the story will repeat
>> it self...
>>
>>
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