GitHub is just serving as public code mirror, it’s not going to be their hosting platform.
Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year 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 🤷
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
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.
philm@programming.dev 1 year ago
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.
Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It does. OSS needs visibility, it needs contributions