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Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by neme@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honest question - is GitLab really that different of a vendor lock-in over GitHub?

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gitlab can be self-hosted. GitHub is a cloud-only service.

So they could do git.mozilla.com and it would be their own instance of git, on their own hardware (or, probably, from their own AWS account). They control it entirely.

[–] jayknight@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

They did host a git server at git.mozilla.org, but took it down years ago.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1277297

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

And you need a team managing it. I doubt that they have not considered it.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can self-host GitHub. It takes around 32 GB of memory, however.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait really? Where?

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you can find the download for GitHub Enterprise, Ruby Concealer is little more than an XOR cipher. Make of that what you will.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] Lemzlez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Probably because it has only existed for 2 years

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gitlab's AGPL so I don't think there's anything stopping you from moving to a self managed instance.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No Gitlab is not AGPL, it is partly MIT and the corporate branch is under a proprietary license

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Still better than a fully closed, 100% proprietary, cloud-only Microsoft service.