China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee

guest · Aug 21, 2020

China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee
August 21, 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/china-building-github-alternative-called-095357551.html

As tech businesses become increasingly entangled in broader geopolitical disputes, their users and clients are feeling the heat.

Another area that has made the tech community restless is source code hosting. Chinese developers rely heavily on GitHub, as evident from an apparent government ban of the site in 2013 that prompted former Google China head Kaifu Lee to speak out. Now the China is wary that political conflict may inflict GitHub.
The scenario is not without precedent. Last July, Microsoft-owned GitHub cut off certain services from users in U.S.-sanctioned countries [...]

"If China does not have its own open-source community to maintain and manage source codes, our domestic software industry will be very vulnerable to uncontrollable factors," said Huawei executive Wang Chenglu at an event last August, shortly after GitHub acted to comply with U.S. sanctions laws.
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Gitee claims to have hosted over 10 million open-source repositories and provided services to over 5 million developers so far. For comparison, GitHub reported having 100 million repositories and around 31 million developers worldwide last November.

The question is whether Gitee's platform can convince Chinese developers to migrate from GitHub -- or its Tencent-backed local rival Coding.net -- now that industry titans are onboard to help.
Gitee is clearly confident that there is space for a 'Chinese alternative' to GitHub.

"An open-source ecosystem can't be built overnight. It's a process of building a tower with sand. We have faith in the innovative power of Chinese developers. We also believe in our perseverance and strength to strive."
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