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

[Nia <fl...@sy...>]

On 2025-12-01 16:12, Israel Emmanuel wrote:
> larger platforms like
> Github and GItlab make for easier collaboration because people already
> know how to use these things.

Oh, and then we'd still be stuck on sourceforge.... that platform 
existed 9 and 12 years respectively before the other big platforms... so 
it used to be bigger than those...

And I'm a bit amused that you say something bout my personal preferences 
and then come along with "we prefer that what everyone knows"... again, 
preference... :D

> 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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