@thehatfox@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish • 8 months agoMozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHubdevclass.commessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1170
arrow-up1170external-linkMozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHubdevclass.com@thehatfox@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-square@onlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish21•8 months ago 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 🤷
minus-square@Sigmatics@lemmy.calinkfedilink27•8 months agoLet’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
minus-square@onlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish9•8 months agoDoesn’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.
minus-square@philm@programming.devlinkfedilink5•8 months agoPeople 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.
minus-square@Sigmatics@lemmy.calinkfedilink5•edit-28 months agoIt 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
minus-squarelemmyvorelinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoGitHub is just serving as public code mirror, it’s not going to be their hosting platform.
Another major opensource project that chooses a proprietary hosting platform 🤷
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
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.
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.
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
GitHub is just serving as public code mirror, it’s not going to be their hosting platform.