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I'll say it's probably closer to 3 minutes for most -- how can you be a developer today and not have at least touched github once or twice?

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It's possible (likely, even) that experience of using GitHub is the exact reason why someone has decided not to settle there. Keep in mind that the Linux kernel—the very project that Git owes its existence to—is itself developed by a group that has eschewed with GitHub almost entirely for collaboration.

That, and the fact that GitHub is a closed source backend under control of a corporation that's accountable to no one.

Yeah, but we're talking about sourceforge which has none of those advantages either and is probably actually the worst of all worlds.

Literally untrue. If the facts aren't on your side, or you don't know them well enough to know whether they are or not, why even comment?

The only real fact you cited isn't actually any sort of advantage for sourceforge over GH [1]. I don't think sourceforge has an open backend or any iota of accountability given their history of injecting malware.

And I have no problem with a project not wanting to use github for this reason either - everyone is free to roll their own, or use something else, but the point stands that SF isn't exactly a better alternative for those reasons and most small projects should just end up on github because that's where a lot of OSS development has coalesced anyway and at least github has a been a decent steward providing free OSS project hosting.

1. "and the fact that GitHub is a closed source backend under control of a corporation that's accountable to no one"

So you've decided to double down on the not-knowing-what-you're-talking-about thing? It would have taken you less time to look up the relevant facts than typing out that comment. Besides that, the whole thing reeks of post-hoc argumentation. This will be my last comment in this thread.

Ok, I stand corrected -- it is OSS based on Apache Allura.

1. https://allura.apache.org/

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