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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by moontear »

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

Without knowing their reason, there are a few things tied to the org where multiple orgs make sense. If you do SSO for example you tie the org to a SSO provider, you can’t tie „just a few users“ to the SSO provider (afaik). The Firefox repo may have totally different authentication / users than the main Mozilla repo.

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Post by gsich »

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/

Probably only for visibility. Or MS is in the process of sponsoring them.

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Post by protocolture »

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 they would have hosted their own git on a run down pentium 2 in a nerds basement, never washed, and spent most of their time complaining online.

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Post by swiftcoder »

shit_game wrote: post #4
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

Interesting that their issues are blamed on "dual SCM", not on Mercurial itself. I guess just the weight of contributors expecting Git as the default is sinking the big Mercurial projects these days.

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Post by freddie_mercury »

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/

To assert that an organisation doesn't "truly" care about open source simply because they've chosen a tool that isn't is ridiculous.

Even before this Mozilla almost certainly used hundreds of closed source tools, including things like Slack, Excel, Anaplan, Workday, etc.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by IshKebab »

bandrami wrote: post #12

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

Plenty of people use Codeberg and Gitlab. And it's still distributed - I don't need to lock files and ask coworkers if I can work on them.

Maybe if Git had native support for PRs and issues this wouldn't have happened. (And yes I'm aware of git send-email etc.)

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