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This person obviously has their own way of doing things that works for them and that's great. Some of his views are patently absurd though. This is mostly commenting on his reasons against using a forge and not a comment that he should do something differently.
100% fair and I think this is the main take-away from the blog post. If you don't trust something, don't use it. Full stop, the post could have ended there and been fine. But then it goes on to say:
You mean like forcing people to use email to submit pull requests to your self-hosted git repos? It doesn't matter what you are doing, if you are working on an open source project you are going to have workflow limitations. This is arguing a fallacy.
Nothing is forcing you to use these features so just don't use them. Plenty of teams use 3rd party tools but host their code in a forge site. Having options available to you automatically is not the same thing as being forced to use them. If it was, JIRA wouldn't exist because everyone would use github/gitlab/whatever's built-in issue tracking and project management.
The majority of the post comes across as someone who just doesn't like the forge sites and aside from the trust aspect, then spent a bunch of effort trying to create associations and limitations between things that don't exist.
Trust is 100% the main reason not to use a forge site and all the other things cited are superfluous and/or very subjective.
I think he meant "you" as in there person running the project, not a contributor.
But... it's still stupid because GitHub doesn't force a workflow on you. Unless he means "have an issue tracker" and "use CI" are a workflow. You don't even need to use merge requests if you don't want (but I have no idea why anyone would give up something that works so well).
Definitely.