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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot (www.phoronix.com)

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The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests.

Gentoo announced today they now have a presence on Codeberg and are welcoming code contributions there as an alternative to GitHub. Initially it's their ebuild repository being hosted on Codeberg while eventually all Gentoo GitHub repositories will be migrated. Codeberg is based on Forgejo and hosted in Germany as a non-profit.

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 16 points 5 days ago

Now you !nixos ! Get off that Microslop playform. If gentoo can, so can you.

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Moving nixpkgs development from GitHub would be ambitious, as that repo already pushes their infrastructure limits with enterprise level support.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-core-team-update-2026-01-22/74585

I suspect the Nix org would need to garner many more sponsors to fund the hosting expenditures for an equivalent forge with matching CI/CD, PR automation, and geo redundancy. Would be nice to see.

[-] patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se 4 points 5 days ago

I fully agree that nixos moving off GitHub is a nonstarter for technical reasons. The nixpkgs repo is enormous and has caused loads of infrastructure problems at GitHub over the years.

But the NixOS foundation currently has over 300K Euros in their open collective account. They get free sponsorship from GitHub for the repo and free sponsorships covering the very expensive build and caching services too.

https://opencollective.com/nixos

[-] khleedril@cyberplace.social 0 points 5 days ago

@patrick @ruffsl Don't lose sight of the fact that Github is actually Microslop, and they'll do anything to keep their fingers in that pie.

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