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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by thefilmore » Tue, May 13, 2025, 5:23 AM UTC

Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
github.com

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by mlenz » Tue, May 13, 2025, 5:44 AM UTC

Great to see, but I wonder what lead to the decision of creating a new org instead of using github.com/mozilla

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by CorrectHorseBat » Tue, May 13, 2025, 5:48 AM UTC

So they moved from hg to git? Or is this just an official mirror

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by shit_game » Tue, May 13, 2025, 5:49 AM UTC

CorrectHorseBat wrote: post #3

So they moved from hg to git? Or is this just an official mirror

firefox development has been moved from mercurial to git since early november of 2023

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Going-Git

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by temp0826 » Tue, May 13, 2025, 5:49 AM UTC

mlenz wrote: post #2

Great to see, but I wonder what lead to the decision of creating a new org instead of using github.com/mozilla

They have many orgs-

https://wiki.mozilla.org/GitHub#other_github

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by reddalo » Tue, May 13, 2025, 5:56 AM UTC

Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2].

[1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by AStonesThrow » Tue, May 13, 2025, 5:58 AM UTC

reddalo wrote: post #6

Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2]. [1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

> If they truly cared about open-source

Perhaps Microsoft offered to pick up the tab that Google has been paying, but is now imperiled, or at least lend some sort of financial support, and Firefox cares more about paying their bills than open source

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by mzi » Tue, May 13, 2025, 5:59 AM UTC

reddalo wrote: post #6

Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2]. [1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

Codeberg unfortunately have an abysmal uptime track record.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by rrr_oh_man » Tue, May 13, 2025, 6:00 AM UTC

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Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by danpalmer » Tue, May 13, 2025, 6:02 AM UTC

reddalo wrote: post #6

Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2]. [1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

I would argue that part of "truly caring" about open-source is being where the contributors and community are. That's probably a large part of the move to GitHub, and neither of these other options would achieve that. As much as one can say "git is distributed, the server doesn't matter", the centre of the community very much does matter, and for better or worse that's currently Github.