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Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg? (lemmy.ml)
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Sure, I know a lot of projects have been on GH since before MS bought it, but they've owned it for quite a while now, so we really should be seeing better migration out by now, no?

Codeberg is nonprofit which seems more in the spirit of the Linux ecosystem overall. GH is for-profit...

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Momentum and time and effort to migrate.

And there's automated workflows such as GitHub Actions and ci/cd integrations that don't have 1-to-1 replacements, which would mean extra work (for quite strained teams of volunteers)

[–] matdave@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Additionally, as a developer on a large open source project, the community is already established on GitHub. It would be incredibly risky to move it and hope everyone comes along.

[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 15 hours ago

Good for them, still, it's risky, they just decided it was worth the risk

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I moved my projects and yes I had to make new runners and pipelines for forgejo but it's pretty much feature parity

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

Good for you, guess your setup is less complicated then.

There's still plenty of stuff that is not a 1-to-1 drop in replacement, e.g. plenty use build previews from netlify, they have no drop-in for other providers so to get those you have to directly interact with the API instead, in a runner