Star Wars reference in a comment: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/917c73cfe1a5...
Fun to get a glimpse into someone's thought process while they were working.
Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
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Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
#342Pretty 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.
It really is a tragedy that git monoculture is winning over Mercurial, Fossil and other better designed alternatives. Don't even have a nice github-like service for Mercurial anymore as Bitbucket decided to give up.
I had been chronically depressed with Mercurial's decline, but now at least jj gives me hope for sanity:
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#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is just blatantly wrong on so many levels. Proposed contributions can in fact have negative value, if the contributor implements some feature or bug fix in a way that makes it more difficult to maintain in the long term or introduces bugs in other code. And even if such contribution is ultimately rejected, someone knowledgeable has to spend time and effort reviewing such code first - time and effort that could h…
It's not wrong, it's just based on the assumption that the projects wants contributors. Quite obviously, any incidental friction makes this ever so slightly harder or less likely. Good contributions don't necessarily or only come from people who are already determined from the get go. Many might just want to dabble at first, or they are just casually browsing and see something that catches their attention. Every proj…
> Many might just want to dabble at first, or they are just casually browsing and see something that catches their attention.
You can easily craft an email for that. No need to create a full PR.
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#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say that using GitHub only for a public git repository is pretty good value. It is free and robust, and there is not much bad Microsoft can do to you. Because it is standard git, there is no lockdown. If they make a decision you don't like, migrating is just a git clone. As for the "training copilot" part, it is public, it doesn't change anything that Microsoft hosts the project on their own servers, they can…
I am banned from GitHub because I didn't want to give them my phone number. They ignored a legally binding GDPR request to delete all my data. I haven't got around to suing them yet. Recently I also got "rate limited" after opening about three web pages. Microsoft can do something to you, and that is to arbitrarily deny you access after you've built a dependence on it, and then make you jump through hoops to get acce…
When did they ask you for a phone number? Last github account I set up back at the end of February didn't ask for one and does the mandatory 2fa step using a code sent via email.
This might be a country-dependant thing.
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a Free software supporter, its just a matter of time before we lose out on our freedoms. Honestly, once Linus retires I do think Linux will continue to thrive with a good team but Linux, the kernel, will either have to adapt to current times (whatever that can be in the future) or something else will replace it and, likely, some AI aspect on top. It wont be free software and, likely, it will be Microsoft.
Linus doesn't care about free software. You're thinking of rms.
Last time I checked, he is happy using GPL (even if he did stay over v2)
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#346I guess the dream is dead. Even in open source, we have consolidation with no real hard monetary markets involved. EDIT: skimming these comments, I like how none of the top comments are talking about the bigger story here which is the move away from mercurial to git and instead everyone is focusing on github itself. This has essentially sealed hg away to obscurity forever. Do people not realise git is a program that…
I cannot imagine moving to Git from Mercurial. Git looks clunky from my perspective. Yes, it works too, but working with Git is a usability torture, sorry but it is true. I like some Git features better though, but not most of them.
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#347I hope the bugzilla stay there even if only read only. There is a lot of historical data in there, especially for the web which was built as a "ad-hoc" platform, many times when you wonder why does X the answer can only be found in bugzilla (which will explain that some random website that used to be major but doesn't even exists anymore, did something for some browser that used to be major but doesn't even exists an…
Bugzilla is still the bug tracker for Firefox. I know if no plans to change that. (Github issues are not being used for the Firefox repo.)
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#348To me it seems absurd that such organization like Mozilla uses third-party hosting like GitHub instead of something self-hosted or at least running under their own name. I understand that one-person projects use GitHub, but forcing contributors to make account with third-party service seems contributor-hostile.
If it is an open source project then why not. This gives some visibility and welcoming openness to the project where everyone can contribute.
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am banned from GitHub because I didn't want to give them my phone number. They ignored a legally binding GDPR request to delete all my data. I haven't got around to suing them yet. Recently I also got "rate limited" after opening about three web pages. Microsoft can do something to you, and that is to arbitrarily deny you access after you've built a dependence on it, and then make you jump through hoops to get acce…
> Recently I also got "rate limited" after opening about three web pages. People who haven’t used it logged out recently may be surprised to find that they have, for some time, made the site effectively unusable without an account. Doing one search and clicking a couple results gets you temporarily blocked. It’s effectively an account-required website now.
Thanks. I didn’t realize that. Migrating repos tonight.
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#350So they moved from hg to git? Or is this just an official mirror
They supported Git and Hg until now. This means they are dropping Hg support.
Not yet at least. Currently both are still supported, it's just that the core repo is now in git syncing to hg rather than the other way around.
But I think hg support is going away. We hg enthusiasts at Mozilla are mostly fleeing to Jujutsu.