Before GitHub | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
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Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction
Before GitHub | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings Armin Ronacher 's Thoughts and Writings blog archive projects travel talks about Before GitHub written on April 28, 2026 GitHub was not the first home of my Open Source software. SourceForge was . Before GitHub, I had my own Trac installation. I had Subversion repositories, tickets, tarballs, and documentation on infrastructure I controlled. Later I moved projects to Bitbucket, back when Bitbucket still felt like a serious alternative place for Open Source projects, especially for people who were not all-in on Git yet. And then, eventually
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