Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub

dekaf@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So, from a decentralised solution to the world’s biggest repository

  You need to check your notes. Git is decentralized, even if you host a repository somewhere.

  Decisions like these (…)

  As a Firefox user, these initiatives matter nothing in my decision to use Firefox. In fact, I’m glad they went this way. They need to focus on working on code instead of wasting their time in irrelevant details.

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  • dekaf@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You need to check your notes. Git is decentralized, even if you host a repository somewhere.

    I am not sure if you’re wilfully ignoring my point about how centeralised GitHub is, but I’ll assume good faith:

    GitHub is enshittifying everything that has to do with Git. It presents a very common pattern where nonfree software providers embrace an open standard, extend it maliciously towards a less open experience by raising capital or being acquired by a large company with massive funding then make its users trapped in many systems that make it a hard time to migrate to other places and eventually introduce anti-features and lock-in mechanisms in late stages of the software cycle.

    As a Firefox user, these initiatives matter nothing in my decision to use Firefox.

    You should care. As a Firefox user, you should be aware of how the funding and hiring of the people working on Firefox go. For example, most notable updates to Firefox, including Firefox Quantum, were developed in Servo, a different browser project that Mozilla completely abandoned and fired all its employees working on it, all the meanwhile in the same year the CEO gave herself a pay raise that would have paid for multiple developers to work on something proven essential to the performance and security of Firefox.

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    • lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      how centeralised GitHub

      It’s a pointless and irrelevant remark. Mozilla uses Git to track work on Firefox. GitHub provides Git repositories. I can clone Firefox out of GitHub, create an account on GitLab/Bitbucket, push the code there, and GitHub does not feature as a concern at all.

      What point can you possibly think you’re able to make regarding GitHub?

      GitHub is enshittifying everything that has to do with Git.

      Nonsense. Speaking as someone who actually hosts the same projects on GitHub and other version control providers, GitHub does not even feature as an implementation detail.

      I’m starting to think you’re just trolling.

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• nottheengineer@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But what browser do we use then?

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  • dekaf@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Firefox (or its forks, depending on how much you value privacy and your needs can be met while breaking some data-collecting websites.)

    I am not calling for any action in my comment, but things are not looking good for the future of Firefox.

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