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This is an incomplete overview over the Pros and Cons of various code hosting providers and version control systems. ¶

# Code Hosting ¶

## GitHub ¶

### Pros ¶

- Currently used ¶
- Well-known ¶
- Good UI ¶
- Good CI ¶

### Cons ¶
- Policies drive away contributors ¶
- Problematic for FOSS ¶

## Launchpad ¶

### Pros ¶
- Previously hosted there ¶
- Good bugtracker and project page UI ¶

### Cons ¶
- No CI ¶
- Bad merge request UI ¶

## Codeberg ¶

### Pros ¶
- FOSS-oriented ¶
- Interface very similar to GitHub ¶

### Cons ¶
- Unknown site ¶
- Experimental CI ¶

## GitLab ¶

### Pros ¶
- Interface similar to GitHub ¶

### Cons ¶
- Unknown site ¶
- Limited CI time (50000 minutes) ¶

## Table format ¶

| | GitHub | Launchpad | Codeberg | GitLab | ¶
|----|:------:|:---------:|:--------:|:------:| ¶
| familiarity | 3 | 3 | 0(+)[^1] | 0 | ¶
| UI | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ¶
| CI | 3 | 0 | 0(+) | 1 | ¶
| user base | 3(-) | 1 | 0 | 2 | ¶
| stability | 3(-)[^2] | 23(-)[^3] | ? | 3 | ¶
| FOSS | -3 | -1 | 3 | 0 | ¶
| policy | -3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ¶

[^1]: very similar to GitHub ¶
[^2]: we don't know where FOSS support is headed
[^3]: dependent on a single company

# CI Service Providers ¶

## Github Actions ¶

### Pros ¶
- Provides a lot of Target OS ¶

### Cons ¶
- See Github cons ¶

## CircleCI ¶

### Pros ¶

### Cons ¶

## Travis ¶

### Pros ¶

### Cons ¶

## Appveyor ¶

### Pros ¶

### Cons ¶





# VCS ¶

## Git ¶

### Pros ¶

- Currently using it ¶
- State of the art ¶
- Performant and efficient ¶
- Well-known for new contributors ¶

### Cons ¶

- Hard to learn ¶

## Bazaar / Breezy ¶

### Pros ¶
- Previously used ¶
- Nice merge conflict resolving ¶
- Easy to learn ¶

### Cons ¶
- Outmoded ¶
- Slow and inefficient ¶
- Little-known for new contributors ¶
- Moving would lose our commit history ¶

## Subversion ¶

### Pros ¶
- Previously used ¶
- Nice merge conflict resolving ¶

### Cons ¶
- Very outmoded ¶
- Slow and inefficient ¶
- Little-known for new contributors ¶
- Moving would lose our commit history