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I'll be releasing a (small) open source project later this week. Given that I'd like it to get as much attention as possible, should I still put it on GitHub or launch it on GitLab? I won't be self-hosting the repository now, though may want to someday.

Votes?



@codesections
If it were me, I'd choose gitlab, but then again, you bring a good point that the GitHub still will get you attention. Probably what's best would be to do it on GitHub and every now and then copy it all to gitlab until MS does something horrible(or not, I'm not combined that they will)

@h4ck3r9
I'd go also. I know the whole Microsoft thing is still fresh and they haven't done anything bad yet, but I don't trust them and I feel it's just a matter of time. Better to do it now than get to invested.

@codesections

@codesections
Do github first. Then make a huge production about moving it to Gitlab, garnering the most attention for your project.😃

@h4ck3r9 @DistroJunkie @mike Ha! Words to live by ….

Well, in that case, I think I'll look into GitLab. Hopefully I can count on y'all/Fosstodon to help get the word out to make up for whatever discoverablity I lose by not being on GitHub

@codesections
Definitely! What kind of project is it?

Send a link when it's up.
@DistroJunkie @mike

@h4ck3r9 @DistroJunkie @mike It's a command-line passphrase generator in pure bash with the goal of being able to pipe generated passwords directly into pass (passwordstore.org) or any other password manager that accepts standard input.

I'm basically done with a v.0.0.1, just need to finish up the documentation. (Man, the syntax for man pages is … unique)

@codesections
If visibility is the most important point to you choose github. It is still the biggest hosting platform.
I think de difference between github and gitlab isn't that big. Both are company-driven solutions. only difference is that one of the companies is called Microsoft now.
On the long run the whole FOSS commubity need to think about its code hosting behaviors anyway...