thehatfox@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 years agoMozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHubdevclass.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1173
arrow-up1173external-linkMozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHubdevclass.comthehatfox@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 years 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-squareSigmatics@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up28·2 years 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-squareonlinepersona@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years 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-squareSigmatics@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 years 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-squarephilm@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years 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-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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.
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
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.
GitHub is just serving as public code mirror, it’s not going to be their hosting platform.