IEEE Hosted Gitlab Instance

[HaoZeke]

https://opensource.ieee.org/users/sign_in

[defnotdallas]

Is it _really_ open source if even just viewing anything requires an account?

[boleary-gl → defnotdallas]

You can explore the public projects here: https://opensource.ieee.org/explore

[mdaniel → boleary-gl]

I wish there was a less email-centric workflow to contact the HN mods, because I think your link is much better than a sign in page for showing off the intended content

[curlew_owed → mdaniel]

That page is available by clicking the link that says "Explore groups and projects" on the page that is linked in this post.

[dec0dedab0de → defnotdallas]

Yes. Open source is about being able to modify and redistribute code for the products you already have access to. It's not about just giving everything to everyone.

[scrollaway → defnotdallas]

The GPL allows you to not publish the source, as long as you provide it on request. Several older “open source” projects were distributed exclusively by CD-ROM.

[mattl → defnotdallas]

Is it really open source if there's no repo at all? Absolutely

[mattl → mattl]

It’s perfectly valid for someone to just release tarballs of their source code releases. You don’t need a bunch of infrastructure to share software.

[phoe-krk → defnotdallas]

It's a discoverability problem of that particular page; as a sibling comment mentioned, it's possible to view the public project, it's just that this site has no link to /explore - just /search from what I could see.

[SighMagi]

An IEEE service that would be actually useful.

[teleforce]

New release book on Git for Electronic Circuit Design:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-8124-6

[mrelectric → teleforce]

How exactly is this related?

[teleforce → mrelectric]

It's a Git book for electronic CAD and for those with EE (IEEE) background.