~absolutely-vivid/gah - turn your github repo into a static site - sourcehut git
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/42508495

Issue and PR threads are invaluable documentation for a project, it’s difficult to migrate to another code host when years of knowledge are locked into your old hosting service. So I built a couple of scripts to archive issues, pull requests, comments, and source code from github repositories, and to turn them into static sites! With the accelerating exodus away from github, I’ve heard from a lot of people that there aren’t any good tools for archiving that knowledge in a human-readable format, so I thought this would be a useful tool to make. The initial release is ready, and just in time for github to start charging for self-hosted runners!

If you try it out, let me know what you think. There’s definitely areas that can be improved on :)

    • absolutely_vivid@programming.devOPEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Yeah, microsoft has owned github since 2018. I made this to help people and organizations move off of github, onto something like forgejo or sourcehut. But even after moving, all of those old issues, pull requests, comments, those need to live somewhere. A lot of people seem to use a script to recreate all their issues on their new code host, but that loses a lot of metadata and can only work if there’s a script for your new chosen host. Everyone else just archives the repo and leaves all that info there, which is great until people forget its there, or microsoft decides to start charging for issue hosting.

      So now, with GAH!, people can more easily move away from github, they don’t need to worry about what happens to their issues and PRs. It’s one less barrier to leaving github :)