You forget one key feature of services like github/gitlab … almost everyone will have an account and reduce the hurdle to contribute to your project. Be it with bug reports or pull requests.
Good point, but my perspective with rawproc to date hasn’t included a community component except as a basis for discussing how imaging things work, and this forum serves that purpose quite well. I may eventually change my mind, but right now I’m not seeing much appetite for a raw processor with sharp, dangerous edges…
Self-hosting has the appeal of discovery, for me. I did web development in a simpler era, and I relish opportunities to learn the current things, e.g., REST, webgl, etc…
I bet M$ bought GitHub to improve their Office 365. Google Docs allowed for collaborative editing of docs for years now but M$ Office still sucks in that area.
“When the FOSS is sending us their code, their not sending us their best. They’re not sending enterprise-ready software. They’re sending software with a lot of problems. They’re bringing bugs. They’re bringing trojans. They’re early alpha versions. And some, I assume, are good code.”