Hallo Mark,
I am one of currently 3 active maintainers. You might know that we are
not the founders. We do have write access to the repo but Germar is
still the owner of the repos and has the last word and also he will have
the workload of that migration.
I can't speak for the team but just for myself. I fully support your
request and your decision deleting your account at Microsoft GitHub. I
also fully understand the reasons and share the concerns. My own
projects, where I am the only one maintainer do also exist on
Codeberg.org.
So you see, that you don't have to convince me about migrating to
Codeberg.
But when it comes to BIT the situation is more complex. The project is
more then 15 years old and has a big user base and also GNU/Linux distro
maintainers focused on the Microsoft GitHub account. There is no strict
technical reason why we do not migrate. It is more about resources. I am
aware that the migration tool works very well. But we do have to
communicate a lot. We will face some problems we are currently not aware
of, etc. pp. We have to answer some questions, e.g. if TravisCI does
support Codeberg projects? If not we need to invest time to migrate to
Woodpecker (hosted by Codeberg) or something else. What is about
migrated issues? The GitHub users are not notified about the moved
issues. So we need to inform them in every currently open issue at
Microsoft GH.
There are so many tiny details. It is a very big thing for such an old
big and hard to maintain project.
We still working on ease up the maintenance. For example we drop
Coverage.io. We reorganize folder structures. We will remove and
integrate the "doc" and "user-callback" repo into "backintime" repo.
Migration is on our list. But depending on the other items on that list
and the priorities, it won't happen in the near future.
Be aware that BIT still use the Weblate translation platform hosted on
translate.codeberg.org. So there is a little piece of the project still
migrated. :D
I no longer can do so because I deleted my Github
account. I am no longer confortable using Github
...
I would be confortable again to report (small) hiccups I see
You can also use this mailing list or our personal mail account for
reporting problems.
By the way: It is recommended to name the devil. Use "Microsoft GitHub"
instead of "GitHub". There are a lot of "kids" really not knowing who
they are dealing with.
Best regards,
Christian
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