thehatfox@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoMozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHubdevclass.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down19
arrow-up1154arrow-down1external-linkMozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHubdevclass.comthehatfox@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square56fedilink
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minus-squareSigmatics@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down3·1 year 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
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minus-squarephilm@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year 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-squareSigmatics@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-21 year 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-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoGitHub is just serving as public code mirror, it’s not going to be their hosting platform.
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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
Removed by mod
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.
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
GitHub is just serving as public code mirror, it’s not going to be their hosting platform.