On 2018-06-06 01:53 AM, Mark O'Donovan wrote:
Hi,
Regarding https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1870
What are people's thoughts on transitioning away from GitHub?
I personally have given GitHub a free pass up to now due to the benefits
they were providing to the FOSS community. Following the Microsoft
buyout I no longer wish to do so and have moved all repositories I
control to GitLab. I am considering closing my GitHub account altogether
and will be considerably more likely to contribute to GitLab projects in
future. In this i'm sure that I am not alone.
I also think that Geany, as a Free and Open Source Software program,
should be hosted on a FOSS repository management site. The same open
source arguments that we use to promote Geany apply here.
What changes with the new ownership? As I understand it, the website is
to remain free for open source projects, is still proprietary software,
and is still owned by an (albeit massively larger) for-profit corporation.
At the very least I think the gitlab.com/geany project domain should be
claimed and mirrored.
That seems reasonable, as long as the bug tracker and pull requests and
such can be disabled, and the mirroring can be automated.
Regards,
Matthew Brush
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