Github to charge for self-hosted actions runners

Wow, github is planning to charge people to use their own hardware for self-hosted github actions runners. :rofl:

Not likely to impact any open source forks (who probably use github hosted actions anyway), but closed forks may have to either migrate off github or start paying them to use your own hardware.

Yucky

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Looks like they already walked it back (for now)

the enshittification strikes again!, eh never been much of a fan of Github anyways, but I am still keeping the Dangercode repo up and public on github of course, but I am highly considering just mainly mostly making my new ss14 repos on Gitlab

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I moved to gitea two months ago. Nothing changed, bu looks more stable and working in most regions, that banned by github

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Nice, gitea is really good

Github has also lately been demanding I login due to ā€˜rate limiting’ a lot recently. I guess they really want to do data tracking or something

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damn docnite you know alot of github alternatives then I do, I’ll check gitea out too

probably since Github in the current world we are in now is a subsidiary of Microsoft and such

Yeah, they do this with everything they acquire x.x

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actually curious about the repo size limit of Gitea, since I know Gitlab has a size limit of 10 gigabytes bigger then bitbucket and Github, and that it’s sort of a major reason why i like Gitlab but yeah

Gitea is self hosted, so it’s theoretically based on the host disk size

I’ve heard anecdotally gitlab performs better than gitea for large repos, but haven’t observed this myself. It seemed to work fine for space station when I tried it. If you do plan to host large repo on there, you may want to check the git version is recent: Extremely slow performance with larger repositories Ā· Issue #19812 Ā· go-gitea/gitea Ā· GitHub

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yoooo aight I’ll consider it

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Is SSMV launcher and game development restricted to GitHub?
I don’t like GitHub, even if I actually have GitHub account and experience was rather tolerable as I managed to sign up.
If it was possible to contribute to WizDen SS14 without GitHub, I’d take that option.

Consider that GitHub is not too friendly to anonymous signups and blocks some countries too. It also can suspend repos for poor reasons.

git the software is decentralized. As long as you provide would-be contributor with a way to communicate with you, said contributor could set up own git repo anywhere and request you to merge changes, without GitHub’s ā€œpull requestā€ mechanism. There’s even ā€œgit format-patchā€ for email.

Repos themselves may still continue to be hosted by GitHub, you can download GitHub-hosted repos even over Tor without too much trouble. Self-hosted public mirror would be decent to have anyway.

Another thing to consider is issue tracker. GitHub had issue tracker just bundled in, even before Microsoft. You cannot access that without GitHub account. And unlike code, issues normally are not backed up. Consider self-hosted issue tracker unless players sending adminhelp messages for bugs is perfectly fine.

Nope!

I actually do take patchfiles for Blep (there are some instructions on blep wiki), and would have no problem doing likewise for MV.

Or for MV specifically, I could also mirror MV onto a Gitea instance I already run for another project, potentially

Similarly for blep issue tracking, I have a Mantis set up for another project that could also do Blep issues, potentially.

Where is that?

In-game on the pause menu you can click wiki and it will take you to the wiki ^.^

Can you selfhost gitea or similar? But for personal project, like MV, maybe SkyCorp and etc.

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Gitea is self-hostable indeed. I’d also like to mention that Forgejo also exists. If you don’t need anything but web interface for browsing git repo, there’s also cgit. And when I needed private git repos, Gitolite was good.

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