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lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

A less confusing title would be “Mozilla drops support for Mercurial (…)

It’s not even about GitHub at all. Taken straight out of the announcement:

“For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git.”

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ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
But a few lines later:

Although we’ll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time

So I don’t know if you meant that the focus of the change wasn’t GH or that they weren’t using GH at all, but it seems like the latter is untrue.

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- lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  you meant that the focus of the change wasn’t GH
  
  They are dropping Mercurial and focusing on Git. Incidentally, they host the Git project on GitHub. GitHub is used for hosting, and they don’t even use basic features such as pull requests.
  
  Again, this is really not about GitHub at all.
  
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- sim642@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is the crucial detail that everyone is missing.
  
  It’s the same as with the Linux kernel GitHub mirror.
  
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