Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  feddit.org/post/9959466/5697405

  [why blocked?] "a contributor made a push from a sanctioned region is what i saw. not even a main dev, and they didn’t receive any warning is my understanding. i might be way off, i’m not a final source:

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  • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not that I condone Microsoft, but if it is a sanctioned country (Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.). Microsoft will be in shit with the US government if they let it there.

    If the project has contributors from there, then I guess they need to move off GitHub like they did.

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    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So now we know how to instantly delist any project on GitHub.

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is a really strong argument for not depending on non-federated, centrally controlled services. It doesn’t matter which country or company is behind Your Favorite Service™, they can be legally mandated to by Oppressive Regime (“it could never happen in my country!”), or they could just be arbitrary assholes.

      I don’t care why Microsoft did it. I moved off Github when MS acquired them, although in this case it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. Regardless, what it proves is that you can not rely on a monopoly.

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    • mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If I interpret this toot correctly, there wasn’t a direct commit from a sanctioned region, but one developer was in one of those regions for a short while quite some time ago. And he may have been flagged because of this.

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    • FreeBird@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Apparently Github is OK with Iran:

      github.blog/…/advancing-developer-freedom-github-…

      github.blog/…/github-supports-internet-freedom-an…

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    • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Problem is that unless the person was paid for contributing, what goods or services are being exchanged with the project. I mean if Microsoft received money from that person for a subscription or something I might see them having to ban the user and refund the money. But what did the project receive that would violate sanctions? Volunteer work is usually not covered or else relief organizations and religious missionaries would be banned and the US historically loves sending those. What am I missing?

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    • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If they can tell they’re from a banned region why are they letting them push in the first place. Sounds like a convenient excuse.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i think its sad that this is what the country decided to do. FOSS has nothing to do with the wars waged by politicians, sometimes at the expense of the very people trying to collaborate together despite chauvinism.

      i imagine it will sadly get worse as these conflicts escalate.

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  • tauren@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s strange. A lot of people from Russia continue contributing on GitHub without any issues.

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  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This Russiaphobia is so completely out of fucking control.

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is the benefit of using distributed tools like got.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, the code history is the easiest thing to migrate. The other stuff like issues relies on having a good exporting/importing tool on both sides.

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  • rice@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yea tons of devs treat all of these platforms like the central host, but you can host it on all of them at once lol

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    • mac@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wonder if there’s a tool for compiling all issues from seperate sources to allow devs with repos hosted on several different platforms to respond easier.

      Also feels like a way to get repeat issues more frequently

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ooh, I didn’t know that someone had developed a mechanism to move issues and PRs.

  I remember commenting on the fact that while it’s easy to move the source repo itself, as git makes that easy and self-contained, issues and PRs didn’t enjoy that.

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  • marsokod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can easily do that with forgejo/gitea. However, you cannot sync these issues, that’s a one-off operation.

    You can however totally sync the git repo - either out of the box or using web hooks/git hooks.

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    • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I bet you could sync issues if you were bored enough. It’d be a pipeline that you have to maintain and two way syncs are a pain to maintain, but I bet it’s doable

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    • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      YMMV. I’ve seen issues in migration from Gitea to Codeberg. Always test first.

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• Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  organic maps ftw!

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• taanegl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If this doesn’t spur on an antitrust suit in the EU, I don’t know what will.

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  • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It probably won’t, they were banned due to sanctions that the EU completely support. Though they were unblocked so it raises questions was the ban even legitimate and also why it took 2 weeks to unban them.

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• navi@lemmy.tespia.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A bit of a different tone from when they announced that they were blocked. It was much more neutral (GitHub enforcing US law).

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• MinFapper@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It doesn’t seem like a very “walled” garden if they were able to migrate all their data including issues and comments

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• inbeesee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Forgejo seems pretty good, I’ll move my stuff there too

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