Comment on Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

Anafroj@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here I am knowing the difference between git and GitHub, GitLab, …

  But what’s a ‘forge’ please ?

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  • Anafroj@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the name we use to designate software like GitHub, GitLab and similar, which provide repositories hosting and tooling like issue trackers. It’s supposed to be named because of SourceForge, the oldest of such tools, although I didn’t hear the term “forge” before the last 5 years or so, long after SourceForge demise, so I imagine there is a bit of nostalgia in this name (not sure who is nostalgic of SourceForge, though 😂). The wikipedia page : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)

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    • perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      SOURCEFORGE: I’m not dead yet!

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      • Anafroj@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ^^

        Oh, my apologies, Sourceforge! Say hi to Myspace for me!

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• authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I myself have launched several new git repos in the last decade. Where’s my article TechCrunch?

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• kinttach@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And of course there have been forges launched, including SourceHut, Gitea, Gogs, Forgejo…

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gitea, Gogs, Forgejo

    "They are the same picture.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I complained when the term “crypto” was co-opted. Come die with me on this hill where we care about things.

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• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also plain wrong - Codeberg launched in 2019. Now the question is: did the author just not know better, or is he paid not to know?

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  • thatcasualgamingguy@lemmy.nerdcore.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Codeberg isn’t an entirely new forge. It’s just a well-known gitea/forgejo instance. Sourcehut would probably be a better example.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for the correction! Then it’s also wrong due to Gitea which launched in 2016.

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  • Anafroj@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The worst part is that this is a direct quote from Harness’ CEO, not from TechCrunch author. :) Maybe they have a great product, I don’t know, but it certainly feels like an amateurish launch. :D

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, if a CEO has to lie to make their product seem better, it’s blacklisted in my mind.

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• emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I thought you were being overly pedantic but my god, they keep repeating the point. They seem to have no idea what the difference between a platform hosting code repositories and an individual repository is or even what version control software is. What the bloody hell is this.

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  • Anafroj@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At the very least, it means the CEO doesn’t understand the domain. It may be because he sees this part of the business as secondary and less important, or because it was developed so fast he didn’t have time to grasp the concepts, probably he was not a driving force in that effort. I certainly hope the tech side is more aware. Without more proof of CEO implication, I certainly would not bet on that horse to survive in the distant future, though.

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