curious: why use own hosting rather than github?

[J Rt]

This is true, but at the same time, this is 'yet another method to
learn', while nowadays a vast group of users are quite proficient and
used to github and similar. Using something a la github would take
away some entry barrier for most user IMO.

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:47 AM Erazem Kokot <contact at erazem.eu> wrote:
>
> > Reminder that "meteorites" are also important for the project, as they
> > are also often users who find a bug / want to fix just one thing and
> > not developers.
>
> In that case the barrier to entry still isn't that high, since everybody
> already uses email and subscribing to a mailing list with mailman is as
> simple as with any other newsletter.
> The only difference is having to use git with email, for which there are
> a lot of tutorials online and after the first setup (which you can
> compare with subscribing to Github for example), the user just has to
> run one command, which is arguably faster than submitting a pull request
> on Github.
>
> Regards,
> Erazem