Proprietary software is not off-topic for lobsters and this is not an “open-source community,” even if there are a lot of people here who are very interested in open source.
You can read more about what is and is not on topic for the site here: https://lobste.rs/about
I wasn’t referring to Lobste.rs. It’s explicitly mentioned in the title that the project is open-source, so it’s presumably meant to be primarily used by the open-source community.
I think GitHub plays a big role in spreading open-source, it’s my goto place in free time, I learn a lot. I starred many interesting projects in GitHub, but find no useful way to organize it, so I create this tool for myself in the hope of helping others.
Just out of curiosity, how would you distribute open-source projects using non-proprietary software?
It was banned less for sourcehut overpromotion (which I personally saw very little of) and more because his hot takes would create flamewars here. See the last two posts as an example.
It’d be nice if this piece of software didn’t encode the assumption that the external git repos someone might want to deal with are all hosted on GitHub into the name.
it’s a tool to manage your github repositories, not a general tool for managing external git repos! from a quick look at the code it works with the github api.
The name is unfortunately misleading. Oh My GitHub isn’t much like Oh My Posh, Oh My Zsh, and Oh My Fish, which are all shell plugin/package managers. Oh My GitHub is a tool for interacting with a limited subset of a specific API, not a tool for customizing an environment using plugins.
Oh My GitHub’s core is written in C, and it’s meant to be used in different frontends, Emacs is one example, I hope others interested could write for other environment, such as Nvim/VSCode/Atom etc. I think Oh My GitHub is extensible in this way.
I think you misunderstand the issue, so let me offer a different wording.
There was a tool named “Oh My Zsh” whose purpose is to simplify configuring zsh. It started a chain of snowclones, including “Oh My Fish” and “Oh My Posh”. At least in certain circles, “Oh My *” convention became firmly associated with configuration and plugin/theme managers.
You, I suppose unknowingly, used that naming convention for a tool that isn’t a configuration or plugin manager. Now, whether you want it or not, there will be people who will find that name misleading because it doesn’t match a convention that was there before you.
It’s a bit like if you started a project named “foobuntu” that wasn’t an Ubuntu Linux derivative but, say, a text editor. Whatever your justification for that name could be, people would be guaranteed to assume that it’s an Ubuntu derivative from that name.
Could we avoid promoting proprietary software in the open-source community?
Proprietary software is not off-topic for lobsters and this is not an “open-source community,” even if there are a lot of people here who are very interested in open source.
You can read more about what is and is not on topic for the site here: https://lobste.rs/about
I wasn’t referring to Lobste.rs. It’s explicitly mentioned in the title that the project is open-source, so it’s presumably meant to be primarily used by the open-source community.
Hi, author here.
I think GitHub plays a big role in spreading open-source, it’s my goto place in free time, I learn a lot. I starred many interesting projects in GitHub, but find no useful way to organize it, so I create this tool for myself in the hope of helping others.
Just out of curiosity, how would you distribute open-source projects using non-proprietary software?
Hi! Here is a nice article about why free infrastructure is important for free software, with a list of free alternatives to GitHub: https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infrastructure.html
The project that the author doesn’t mention in order to avoid looking like he’s just promoting his own product is SourceHut: https://sourcehut.org/
Thanks, I have never heard codeberg/sourcehub, seems interesting to me. I will spend more time exploring those free infrastructure.
Isn’t Drew’s site banned from lobste.rs, exactly for trying to overpromote source hut ?
It was banned less for sourcehut overpromotion (which I personally saw very little of) and more because his hot takes would create flamewars here. See the last two posts as an example.
I fully get it. He is a controversial figure.
Maybe. If it is, I wasn’t aware of it.
It is: https://lobste.rs/domain/drewdevault.com
What community is that?
It’d be nice if this piece of software didn’t encode the assumption that the external git repos someone might want to deal with are all hosted on GitHub into the name.
it’s a tool to manage your github repositories, not a general tool for managing external git repos! from a quick look at the code it works with the github api.
The name is unfortunately misleading. Oh My GitHub isn’t much like Oh My Posh, Oh My Zsh, and Oh My Fish, which are all shell plugin/package managers. Oh My GitHub is a tool for interacting with a limited subset of a specific API, not a tool for customizing an environment using plugins.
Sorry the name isn’t sound for you.
Oh My GitHub’s core is written in C, and it’s meant to be used in different frontends, Emacs is one example, I hope others interested could write for other environment, such as Nvim/VSCode/Atom etc. I think Oh My GitHub is extensible in this way.
Hope this explain my motivation naming it.
I think you misunderstand the issue, so let me offer a different wording.
There was a tool named “Oh My Zsh” whose purpose is to simplify configuring zsh. It started a chain of snowclones, including “Oh My Fish” and “Oh My Posh”. At least in certain circles, “Oh My *” convention became firmly associated with configuration and plugin/theme managers.
You, I suppose unknowingly, used that naming convention for a tool that isn’t a configuration or plugin manager. Now, whether you want it or not, there will be people who will find that name misleading because it doesn’t match a convention that was there before you.
It’s a bit like if you started a project named “foobuntu” that wasn’t an Ubuntu Linux derivative but, say, a text editor. Whatever your justification for that name could be, people would be guaranteed to assume that it’s an Ubuntu derivative from that name.
No license?
It’s GPL-3, it’s declared in the last of README.
Normally there’s a
LICENSE.txtor similar in the root though. I didn’t catch it. +1 for GPL though.I have added LICENSE in project root, thanks for reminding.