Comment on Apache Allura: an open source implementation of a software forge

TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gitea is so much better than this.

  Is it, though?

  Also, Apache Allura supports revision control services other than Git, which apparently Gitea does not.

  MIT licensed as well.

  Why do you think that is relevant, specially given Apache Allura is released under the Apache license?

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  • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, Apache Allura supports revision control services other than Git, which apparently Gitea does not.

    Well, do you think its relevant to support anything else other than Git nowadays? Allura might do a bit more on that but Gitea has way more features and the UI is actually decent.

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    • lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, do you think its relevant to support anything else other than Git nowadays?

      Yes. There are people who prefer Mercurial than Git, and there are quite a lot of projects out there which still use Subversion.

      I really don’t understand the mindset that leads to a belief that a monoculture is good or desirable.

      Allura might do a bit more on that (…)

      Yes, it does.

      (…) but Gitea has way more features and the UI is actually decent.

      That’s debatable, but to each its own.

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      • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh well, we value different things it seems.

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    • IAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not OP, but personally yes. Every code forge supporting only git just further enforces git’s monopoly on the VCS space. Git isn’t perfect, nor should be treated as perfect.

      The above is probably the reason why so many alternative VCS’s have to cludge themselves onto git’s file format despite likely being better served with their own.

      Interesting new VCS’s, most supporting their own native format as well for various reasons:

      • pijul
      • sapling
      • jujutsu

      Sapling is developed by meta, jujutsu by an engineer at Google. Pijul is completely FOSS and was developed by an academic iirc. If you’re okay with not new:

      • mercurial
      • fossil
      • darcs

      VCS’s are still being itterated on and tooling being super git centric hurts that.

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      • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Every code forge supporting only git just further enforces git’s monopoly on the VCS space

        So what? You speak about git as if it were some half-proprietary solution aimed at maximizing corporate profit. Git isn’t Chrome.

        Git isn’t perfect, nor should be treated as perfect.

        Yes, and because of that fact it has been evolving over the years.

        VCS’s are still being itterated on and tooling being super git centric hurts that.

        What I see is some resentful people about git - in the same way that happened with SVN and oh well git is objectively better than that.

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• Deckweiss@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  forge-allura.apache.org/p/…/Feature Comparison/

  Thats why they don’t compare themselved against it

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