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Why aren't they using a self-hosted instance of Gitea? This makes no sense move to Github of all places.
Could be familiarity? I saw an article go by recently about how projects that aren't on GitHub suffer from lack of contributions. Although that matters more for smaller projects, Mozilla is a beast and could probably pull people off GitHub if it wanted to.
Also if anyone should be trying to build up an alternative to GitHub, it should be Mozilla
If you are at a skill level, where you can meaningfully contribute to a project like this, registering for an alternative git provider should not be an obstacle
Obstacle? No. Annoyance? Yes.
I agree with this in a lot of cases, but I'm not sure about this case - Mozilla won't be accepting PRs over GitHub from what I can tell.
Git desperately needs something like activity pub. That's how it should have been from the beginning
and it was lol. Git was designed to work using email and plain text patches. No nonsense, no closed platforms. You can still use git that way.
It's super cool that it supports this, heck I've used it when no other options were there (and thank git I could! It made a nightmare into just a little more work instead).
I will say though, it's most of the other software forge features that people normally talk about adding Activity Pub support for (issues tracking, merge requests, tracking forks, CI tooling, handling documentation, etc).
Maybe you can convince Gitea guys to work on that? After all they're the leading open-source alternative.
Lets just say it's coming... soon :)
ForgeJo?
The J is lowercase, -ejo is an Esperanto suffix meaning "place".
Agreed. They could've hosted nearly any git forge since they'll keep using bugzilla and other workflows as is.
They already use GitHub for a bunch of other projects. See https://github.com/mozilla/ and https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/
It’s the most widely used platform that the most people are familiar with that they get to use likely for free. Newer projects of theirs are also hosted there. Why would you say it makes no sense?
Hosting the public repo? I heard that the GH repo is just a mirror