It would be too painful to move D to Gitlab or another medium?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Friday, 24 January 2025 at 16:55:41 UTC, matheus wrote:
> I'd like to know how would people would react if the repository 
> was moved from the current to Gitlab or another medium?

No, we should not be doing this.

> To be honest I find "gh" pretty terrible, for example now you 
> need to log in for silly things like:
>
> Search in a repository.
> Read some comments.

Many online services are moving this way. We are just going to 
have to live with this.

Note that we pay GH nothing for all the services we get. And we 
get a lot.

And no guarantee gitlab does not do the same thing eventually.

> And again it's owned by a company which is not regarded for 
> good things, I just read the article about the usage of their 
> AI for the destruction of Gaza.

Speaking for myself, we are here to write software, not 
participate in activism. As long as the service can perform the 
needs we have, how others use their service is nothing of my 
concern.

> Another thing that I always think, is giving too much power to 
> one entity, balance is good.

I don't think we would be in anywhere near as good shape if we 
hadn't relied on github for all these years. It was revolutionary 
in getting people to contribute to D.

I think we should keep GH as long as they do not make things 
unbearable. We have all the code, we can export all the PR data, 
etc. If we wanted to change services, it's doable. There's no 
need to go through that pain for almost no gain, when we are 
comfortable here.

We already know how much effort and pain it took to move from 
bugzilla to GH. We shouldn't be looking at other services now.

-Steve