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Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It absolutely is. Yes. You can run and maintain it on an own server and it is open core (yeah 😥) using the MIT license - unlike GitHub where you have to rely 100% on the goodwill of Microsoft and everything is closed and locked behind a TOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So why not use forejo, which is completely open source?

If your criticism is MS pulling the plug, then Gitlab pulling a Redis/Hashicorp move and re-licensing their core should also be a concern

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So why not use forejo, which is completely open source?

Absolutely! I’d always go the Forgejo route!

The thing is: I don’t see Firefox being hosted with Forgejo. The code base and amount of data might be way too massive. I see Forgejo as a forge for smaller projects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is there a reason you think Forgejo is only for smaller projects?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've never seen larger projects like Firefox hosted with Forgejo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Probably because it has only existed for 2 years