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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait really? Where?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Probably because it has only existed for 2 years

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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