Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

bredren wrote: post #3

philshem wrote: post #2

I didn't find any link to their GitHub profile in the blogs or press releases: https://github.com/apache/

I wonder how long this name was reserved and by whom.

GitHub is generally pretty loose when it comes to reassigning accounts owned by squatters.

Re: Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

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Post by markphip » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 12:42 PM UTC

bredren wrote: post #3

philshem wrote: post #2

I didn't find any link to their GitHub profile in the blogs or press releases: https://github.com/apache/

I wonder how long this name was reserved and by whom.

The ASF has used this for years. Except for a few projects that have been piloting using GitHub it was mainly used as mirror repositories for repositories hosted at the ASF.

Re: Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

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Post by protomyth » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 12:44 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #4

bredren wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how long this name was reserved and by whom.

GitHub is generally pretty loose when it comes to reassigning accounts owned by squatters.

Although the Apache Software Foundation is considered a squatter themselves by some folks.

Re: Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

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Post by joking » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 12:48 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #6

saagarjha wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub is generally pretty loose when it comes to reassigning accounts owned by squatters.

Although the Apache Software Foundation is considered a squatter themselves by some folks.

why is that?

Re: Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

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Post by snazz » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 12:49 PM UTC

It confuses me why so many traditionally pro-FOSS projects move to a not-free-nor-open tool like GitHub. Do they think that they’ll get enough new contributors this way to offset the (more than slight) irony?

Re: Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

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Post by atonse » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 12:49 PM UTC

I found this title very confusing. I thought it was the equivalent of their non-profit being absorbed by GitHub. Meaning, the corporate structure."

Why don't they just say that Apache will officially host their repositories on GitHub moving forward?

Re: Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

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Post by atonse » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 12:49 PM UTC

snazz wrote: post #8

It confuses me why so many traditionally pro-FOSS projects move to a not-free-nor-open tool like GitHub. Do they think that they’ll get enough new contributors this way to offset the (more than slight) irony?

Better participation. A lot more people know how to use GitHub's tools. It'll likely increase the amount of development, participation, pull requests, etc that ASF projects get. Does it matter that GitHub themselves is not open source?