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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Firefox@lemmy.ml ·
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Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git

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Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git

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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Firefox@lemmy.ml ·
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1863519 - (hg-to-git) [meta] Migrate from Mercurial to Git for Firefox Development
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NEW (nobody) in Developer Infrastructure - General. Last updated 2024-06-27.
  • kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee
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    Honest question - is GitLab really that different of a vendor lock-in over GitHub?

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      Gitlab can be self-hosted. GitHub is a cloud-only service.

      So they could do git.mozilla.com and it would be their own instance of git, on their own hardware (or, probably, from their own AWS account). They control it entirely.

      • jayknight@lemmy.ml
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        They did host a git server at git.mozilla.org, but took it down years ago.

        https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1277297

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        And you need a team managing it. I doubt that they have not considered it.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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        You can self-host GitHub. It takes around 32 GB of memory, however.

        • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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          Wait really? Where?

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            If you can find the download for GitHub Enterprise, Ruby Concealer is little more than an XOR cipher. Make of that what you will.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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      It absolutely is. Yes. You can run and maintain it on an own server and it is open core (yeah 😥) using the MIT license - unlike GitHub where you have to rely 100% on the goodwill of Microsoft and everything is closed and locked behind a TOS.

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        So why not use forejo, which is completely open source?

        If your criticism is MS pulling the plug, then Gitlab pulling a Redis/Hashicorp move and re-licensing their core should also be a concern

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          So why not use forejo, which is completely open source?

          Absolutely! I’d always go the Forgejo route!

          The thing is: I don’t see Firefox being hosted with Forgejo. The code base and amount of data might be way too massive. I see Forgejo as a forge for smaller projects.

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            Is there a reason you think Forgejo is only for smaller projects?

            • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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              I’ve never seen larger projects like Firefox hosted with Forgejo.

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                Probably because it has only existed for 2 years

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      Gitlab’s AGPL so I don’t think there’s anything stopping you from moving to a self managed instance.

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        No Gitlab is not AGPL, it is partly MIT and the corporate branch is under a proprietary license

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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          Still better than a fully closed, 100% proprietary, cloud-only Microsoft service.

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