With the current mass exodus of developers and projects from Github due to the purchase by Microsoft are there plans to move or mirror GameDev repositories to somewhere like GitLab?
Hi @weedfreak,
I would doubt it.
Whilst I understand some people not liking big corporations, unless the service/terms & conditions of use were to change and have negative consequences for GameDev.tv, what would be the point, just to be seen to act in the same manner as some news articles claim other people are?
I’ve not really read, nor intend to do so, but I would imagine that it would be quite easy for any competing company to say, “Oh, yeah, we’ve seen a massive surge in new customers since…”, even if that isn’t actually true, or if the massive surge was actually a considerably smaller quantity. Equally, if one competitor was to do so, it would then make sense that another quickly jumps on the bandwagon and Tweets something similar so as not to be outdone. It would generate hype, people buy into what the see/read, especially online, and can easily become of the same opinion.
Just because a service is provided by <insert name of anti-corporation here> doesn’t necessarily mean that the service is no good or not suitable for a company’s consumers any longer. Personally, I don’t care where the repositories are hosted and I would be quite surprised if any/many of GameDev.tv’s students did either, in the same way, I don’t really care which company Unity uses for their servers/hosting. As a consumer, I just want it to work. I want to hit the Unity website and grab a copy of Unity and download it. If I click on a link on Udemy to go to the repository for that course, I don’t really care where it is, who hosts it, what servers they use, I just want to see the code.
Of course, this is only my opinion, I’m sure there are many pro-<insert company name here> and anti-<insert company name here> people spread across the globe - othering is a powerful thing, which is a shame really.
Should GameDev.tv decide to change provider they may need to update each link, for each lecture, in each section, in every course. Seems like a lot of work for very little gain, time which could be spent on creating new content for existing or new courses, driving their own business forwards.
For now, I wouldn’t imagine this is going to happen, I could, of course, be entirely wrong
Let’s see what the Duck has to say…
“Quack!”
There you have it…