What is Firefox VCS? Is that mercurial? Then it is about time. I know the OSS people whinge about GitHub but you can self host your own git if you want.
It is important for open source projects to go where the contributors are and for better or worse that’s GitHub right now now.
I do realize which community this is in as well, that isn’t lost on me. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The move GitHub is not the best but the move to git opens the door to a ton of other tooling and advantages over mercurial.
A quick web search revealed that Mozilla started moving from hg to got about two years ago. I couldn’t find anything about why GitHub though. Having too many contributors can be a real burden so maybe its some cost saving move?
What is Firefox VCS? Is that mercurial? Then it is about time. I know the OSS people whinge about GitHub but you can self host your own git if you want.
It is important for open source projects to go where the contributors are and for better or worse that’s GitHub right now now.
I do realize which community this is in as well, that isn’t lost on me. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The move GitHub is not the best but the move to git opens the door to a ton of other tooling and advantages over mercurial.
A quick web search revealed that Mozilla started moving from hg to got about two years ago. I couldn’t find anything about why GitHub though. Having too many contributors can be a real burden so maybe its some cost saving move?
It’s just like the time they left the fediverse and shut down their instance.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Mozilla-leaves-the-Fediverse-and-closes-its-own-Mastodon-instance-9902189.html