Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub
Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub
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The repository will be hosted on GitHub, though the move is expected to take “at least six months before the migration begins.”
Another major opensource project that chooses a proprietary hosting platform 🤷
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Let's be honest here, at least like 98% of the popular OSS is on GitHub at this point. You don't have to like it, but it's how things are
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Doesn't mean that they have to continue putting stuff there. But oh well, maybe once ForgeFed becomes a real thing, things might change a little.
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People use the most convenient way to collaborate, and that's for me currently Github. Really hope, some day a better alternative with ForgeFed becomes reality.
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It does. OSS needs visibility, it needs contributions
GitHub's community and discoverability features really help with that, as much as it sucks that they got acquired by Microsoft
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Open source was M$' archenemy that they knew they couldn't compete against. So they slithered in and co-opted it and everyone just ignores the perils and carries on.
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Not to mention the fact that they trained copilot using code on it, without informing or taking permission from the authors and they justify it citing fair use policy.
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GitHub is just serving as public code mirror, it's not going to be their hosting platform.
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