Re: [gentoo-project] Microsoft buys GitHub

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 6/4/18 12:25 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>> W dniu pon, 04.06.2018 o godzinie 15∶07 +0200, użytkownik Michał Górny
>> napisał:
>>> W dniu pon, 04.06.2018 o godzinie 19∶47 +0700, użytkownik
>>> grozin@g.o napisał:
>>>> https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-github/
>>>>
>>>> Does this influence Gentoo GitHun usage?
>>>>
>>>
>>> As far as I'm aware, our Bylaws, Social Contract etc. don't say anything
>>> about having to hate Microsoft.
>>>
>>> Gentoo should continue to support users via GitHub as long as users are
>>> willing to contribute this way, and there are developers who wish to
>>> support them.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, I should have mentioned: as long as there are no major ToS changes
>> or other events that would meaningfully affect our use of their
>> services.
>>
>
> That is exactly what people are expecting, but more in the way of
> feature changes or a lack of development on integration with open
> source technologies.
>
> For anyone interested, here is a fairly comprehensive comparison of
> self hosting options: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison/
>
> It is likely gitea is the best.
>
> Cheers,
>      R0b0t1
>

When github was first introduced to Gentoo, Michal and I argued quite a
bit about it.  My concern was data lock in.  There is now a lot of
Gentoo history in our repos and their issue tracker on github.  I don't
hate Microsoft, but I don't trust them.  I think we should think of some
way to be able to "bring that data home"  in case the TOS does change
drastically --- not just the git repos, but the bug reports too.  I'm
not sure how to do the latter.

--Tony

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