On 06/10/2020 22:43, Jakob Reschke wrote:
> The benefit of using GitHub would be to get an improvement in contribution
> tracking *now* (or, rather quickly) without the investment of setting up a
> custom GitLab and spending the money on additional hosting resources if
> necessary, or developing a custom Monticello solution.


There are also many other self hosting choices available like gitea 
which aren't as heavyweight as GitLab.