Cool cool, @Gargron moving all @Mastodon project discussion behind a proprietary walled garden that requires agreement with Microsoft terms of service (and their analytics tracking). Now THAT makes a ton of sense.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #privacy
https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/we-are-moving-to-github-discussions/4010
@downey @Mastodon Our bug tracker has always been on that proprietary walled garden, and everyone who has ever contributed code to Mastodon has an account on there. It only makes sense to move discussions that are so tightly related to bug tracking there so that people don't have to make an extra account, or check a separate site.
@Gargron @downey @Mastodon Mastodon is such a popular piece of software, it also has a pull effect. If you were to choose a Free Software source forge and discussion forum, you would also attract people to make the move to this platform.
It's not only a problem for purists, it also affects the independence of the project. By tying everything to GitHub or another proprietary provider, you are buying into vendor lock-in.
@bobrzasty @mxmehl This .. is not true. Most of GitHub consists of proprietary components other than git.
@bobrzasty @downey Did you every attempt to migrate issues, wiki entries, CI builds etc to another provider? The more services you use, the harder the migration because they neatly integrate into each other.
It's not entirely impossible, but it's very costly in terms of time, energy, and friction with established workflows. That's the definition of vendor lock-in (plus money, if you cannot do it all by yourself) :)
@downey Not sure if you have ever participated in this forum but it is in 95% dedicated to getting technical help with setting a Mastodon instance up for a first time or upgrade issues. There is a certain overlap between things discussed there and GitHub issues. For this, GitHub might be a better place.
I spent some time on this forum and I will not miss it as it were.
Bashing @Gargron because "Discourse hosted account" might be better than "Microsoft hosted account" is unfair.