So #jexer will be finding a new home shortly, because #GitLab continues to be the company that “wishes it was GitHub” rather than being happy as a company that “does its thing rather well”.
I was already annoyed with the “DevOps” CI/CD blah blah push from years ago, but I could turn all that off. I was also annoyed at how often I would have to grab a damn code from email to login, but again I lived with it. What created my ISSUE number 177 was all the “DevSecOps” AI bullshit, but again that was going to be a measured approach of a weeks-to-months kind of thing.
Not anymore. I am leaving #GitLab ASAP.
Because without notice, the “Issues” feature because renamed to “Work Items” and the URL was changed. (Because it helps “organize teams!” or some other bullshit that I YET AGAIN do not need or want.)
To the git hosting providers out there, you have one job: be a fixed point in cyberspace for a project’s code, issues, and other resources. A community might form around that point, but maybe not! You are not Social Media For Code Dorks, you are Glorified Modern FTP. When you change the externally-visible URLs to core features, you fail your job.
Fuck, not even SourceForge did this, and they started on goddamn cvs before subversion even existed! They’ve managed to go through multiple DVCS’es, multiple web hosting solutions, and survived a few years of parasitic owners and trashed reputation that frankly IMHO they have mostly paid for and are pretty fucking fine now.
It’s a win-win, honestly. GitLab doesn’t want projects like Jexer, and I just want to code in peace.
