No, I don't see it as pointless to have a plan B. It's more a question of when, not if, it's desirable, given past practices.
Even with no immediate changes, github can no longer be considered vendor-neutral. Down the road, as example, M$ may well try to require every project adopt their code-signing policy or the project gets deleted, so they get their kickbacks on all the certificate fees that would entail. ROS doesn't require code-signing?? DELETE!! They did similar when they bought out sysinternals, bloated all their utilities with certificates, so that's a distinct possibility. While migrating the repo itself is easy, the issues list and other history is less so, plus the hassle of getting links on external pages to redirect to a new home; those would take some lead time so imo is better to have some plan than not. ------ Original message------ From: David Quintana (gigaherz) Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2018 4:40 AM To: ReactOS Development List; Cc: Subject:Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub To elaborate further: 1. The deal won't be closed for many months (they expect december) 2. Microsoft probably won't change github at first (xcept maybe make the login integrate with a Microsoft Account) 3. We don't know what they plan to do with the platform in the long term, so worrying now is pointless. 4. We don't know that it will EVER be hostile toward ReactOS, even if they break the platform and make it unusable, so chances are we are good. 5. If worst comes to worst, as Thomas said, we just say goodbye to GH and move elsewhere. On 5 June 2018 at 10:36, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo <elh...@gmail.com<mailto:elh...@gmail.com>> wrote: great! :) On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Faber <thomas.fa...@reactos.org<mailto:thomas.fa...@reactos.org>> wrote: To elaborate, we're not dependent on GitHub in any significant way. It's just convenient. But if it stops being so, it's easy to go elsewhere. That's a key part of Git, being a "distributed" VCS. On 2018-06-05 10:31, Oleksandr Shaposhnikov wrote: > No it may not. > > 5 черв. 2018 р. 11:24 Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo > <elh...@gmail.com<mailto:elh...@gmail.com>> пише: > > May this affect ReactOS? > > > https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.microsoft.com%2Fblog%2F2018%2F06%2F04%2Fmicrosoft-github-empowering-developers%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550395788&sdata=MphM9bR%2F0p14QXZQBKrHGfUK3cmOwVfNKDYXdqtBMVA%3D&reserved=0> _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org<mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reactos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fros-dev&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550552040&sdata=V8%2B3DEP1VRUt2B34MdmNxVef9urlPZ8tYoamkdKQdts%3D&reserved=0> _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org<mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reactos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fros-dev&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550552040&sdata=V8%2B3DEP1VRUt2B34MdmNxVef9urlPZ8tYoamkdKQdts%3D&reserved=0>
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