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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: github's copilot feature
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:08:20
Message-Id: YtRsMEhZTv1BMQnl@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: github's copilot feature by Anna
1 On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 11:27:56AM +0500, Anna wrote:
2 > On 2022-07-16 14:56, John Helmert III wrote:
3 > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 06:35:32PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 5:43 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
5 > > > >
6 > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:33:43PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
7 > > > > >
8 > > > > > I just found out while I was on vacation about Github's copilot feature.
9 > > > > >
10 > > > >
11 > > > > It looks like the SFC is urging foss developers to ditch github over
12 > > > > this.
13 > > > >
14 > > >
15 > > > I get the sentiment, but I don't see what direct impact it will have.
16 > > > If Gentoo stops using Github all our code will inevitably still be on
17 > > > there and will still end up being used to train copilot.
18 > >
19 > > Inevitably? If most of our activity moves somewhere else, I don't see
20 > > why we couldn't blow away all of https://github.com/gentoo.
21 >
22 > Very bad idea. That would break sync mirrors for hundreds of users.
23
24 The last time I checked, we only rely officially on *.gentoo.org (gentoo
25 infra) per our social contract as primary infrastructure. I think we
26 need to be sure users understand that github.com/gentoo is secondary and
27 could go away any time.
28
29 William

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