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Should Photon's git repo be moved outside of GitHub?

GitHub has always been generally a platform that doesn't align well with my and many peoples' values regarding open source software development, I only used it because it's the most popular.

Recent events regarding GitHub and its management have raised a greater consciousness about the nature of the service,so I was wondering if it would cause any problems for me to move to either:

Or if everything is fine as is.

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  • I mean, i'ts your project. It's your baby. You do what you think it's best for it.

    I don't think GitHub userbase number is going to drop dramatically any time soon (same thing with shady-associated services like Reddit, WhatsApp, you name it) but I'd bet everyone who would think about contributing to Photon already has an account in Codeberg (me!) or has the means do collaborate in Forgejo.

  • Both is fine, but in the short term Codeberg is probably the better option. Once Forgejo adds AP federation, a selfhosted instance is probably the best.

  • It's a tough question. Lots of people use GitHub because they want "stars". They want their project to trend so that it gets more attention, and thus more users, and thus more contributors, thereby making it a better product.

    That being said, if Photon had zero improvements moving forward, I'd still be very happy, so my vote is yes, abso-fuckin-lutely.

  • Whether you self-host or use codeberg is your own decision, but I think the best solution is to move from GitHub this is a project for lemmy and piefed anyway most of us support FOSS and are against big tech, so I don't think there would be less amount of contributions if you moved away if that does happen tho you can keep the GitHub page and use it for issue tracking I have seen many projects linking their issue tracker on GitHub to their source code on codeberg.

  • The magic of git is that if something happens it's trivial to switch. Honestly, I would just stick on GitHub until there's an actual reason to change. You can just do git remote set-url origin NEW_SERVER, do a git push and bam, your repo is restored with all of its history.

    It's so easy to move, it's not worth worrying about imo

    • Only difficult part is moving pull requests and issues.

      It would be kinda funny as an excuse to run away from the issues tab though

      • it's not so hard. you can just link previous PRs for comments, and re-home them. you can make a PR cross-platform it just won't necessarily render right in the web UI.

        git is stupid powerful. reject web UI return to email list (Linux kernel vibes)

  • codeberg is great and the sooner we all get off microsoft github the better...

  • I don't feel too strongly about it either way, but I do think codeberg would be a better idea than a self-hosted forgejo.

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