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Firefox has moved onto Github (github.com)

submitted 1 day ago by roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] qweertz@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Bc this seems to be a crosspost, imma cross-comment:

I get wanting to phase out Mercurial in favour of git. But why did they have to choose Github T_T

Ideally they would have just hosted a their own Forgejo instance (heck, a Gitlab one would have been better too FFS). Even just using Codeberg and donating would have been better

The for-profit side of Mozilla seems to have succeeded in purging most of the principles Mozilla used to have (IK they have been eroding over the years and sometimes been too "pragmatic", this is just the cherry on top of a long series of shitpiles)

If Mozilla actually stood for a free/libre future they'd push Forgejo to the lvl they need it to be (if it already isn't capable of all that stuff. Haven't rly interacted much with it). Since they will still keep the CI/CD on Mercurial for now, there is even less valid reasons for using Github...

https://programming.dev/comment/16918830

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Mozilla is just a mouthpiece nowadays. Google money goes in, bullshit comes out. They are only around to accept Google money and to do so, they don't have to actually compete, they just have to be bigger than the alternatives.

If they self hosted a git forge, that would mean paying less money to some "thought leader" and we all know they can't have that!

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago

I personally wouldn't go that far tbh, but I haven't rly looked into it rhat much so idk.
To me it seems like they are still maintaining Firefox, Gecko, and Thunderbird (which is more independent tho IIRC) quite well.
I use Thunderbird directly and Firefox through Librewolf

(haven't rly had the drive to look into Thunderbird analogues to Librewolf. Should rly do that tho)