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Is the docker repo unaffected?
I think so, but I haven't updated my hosted version to check
You got a link on this, something I can share with regular peeps?
Only what you can find from the project's Matrix chat, everything else is inaccessible now
"Regular peeps"
~~That's the only information available, it's not a well enough known project to have articles and stuff about it so you'll have to do with this if you want to learn more~~ just found a Mastodon post about it too
It's fine. I was just being a jerk.
are you sure that is a good link?
What is it going to take to push FLOSS software out of GitHub? Everyone here can move their projects literally anywhere else today. I did it for my own (roughly 10 projects) five years ago and it only took about an hour:
- Create an account with Codeberg, GitLab, or whatever you like.
- Use their built-in tools to copy your repo over to your new account. In GitLab's case, this will even migrate over some of the additional features, like issues.
- Update the places where you publish the project: PyPI, npm, whatever, with the new project home URL.
- Archive the old project on GitHub, with a pointing link to the new project home.
- (Optional) announce the above in any of the social spaces where people care about your project.
for anyone reading this, Codeberg/Forgejo can migrate issues too! use the "new migration" function in the menu where you create new repositories, and tick the box for copying issues and wiki. it is a one time copy only, though, so if you are dedicated you should restrict issues on the github repo to collaborators only, so that people can't open new issues (which won't be able to be synced anymore), but old ones are still readable in their original form.
syncing issues cannot be done later, it's for new repos only
Oh I didn't know this was available in Codeberg! Thanks for sharing.
The problem is that everyone already had a GitHub account and creating an account on 10 different forges just for reporting issues is annoying. GitHub was comfortable.
Forgejo is actively working on federation for this and I think it's super important. Create account somewhere, send issues, comments and PRs to projects on other instances.
GitHub lets you use them as an oauth provider. Issue solved.
Instance fragmentation is annoying in the sense while you can unify log in with oauth you can’t share settings between instances of the same software. Would be cool if oauth could have a generic user_data field to store json of settings maybe…
That's a worthy goal, but the problem isn't so insurmountable that we have to wait for some theoretical new feature to be available and adopted. There are three dominant players out there, one of which has demonstrated a willingness to screw everyone and the "it's not perfect yet" excuse is getting pretty thin.
Switch to Codeberg today and there's a good chance that this federated login will be supported there when/if it's ever available. GitLab could do it too, and moving there will give you a bunch of nice things you don't even get in GitHub let alone Codeberg.
But it's long passed time to move. Microsoft has stolen our code to feed into their slop machine and enshittified the platform. Sticking around because a perfect alternative isn't available only serves to harden the network effect that keeps GitHub dominant.
Agree with Codeberg. I wouldn't recommend Gitlab, nothing stopping them from becoming the next GitHub if they get enough people.
It's true. They're for-profit, so the motivations are still there. Fragmentation helps a lot though. If a third of us move to one, and another third to the other, that would cripple any party's ability to enshittify.
That's the cool thing about git. You can just create a blank codeberg repo and then do:
git remote add codeberg <URL>
git push codeberg --mirror
Of course, this won't include issues and other GitHub specific stuff, but it's much more robust than most other tools.
If Linus had only ever created git, he'd still have his place high up in the programmer's pantheon.
Idk what is "kitchenowl", but yesterday I had a situation where I need to create a github issue (well, I needed a software developer know about something, and the software is only hosted on github).
I created a new github account, created an issue, logged out and saw that my issue isn't there. Turns out my account was flagged. I tried to reach support, but github asks to enable 2FA for this. Added an authenticator.
Turns out, you still can't reach github support until you add and verify a phone number via SMS. No way I'm giving away my phone number to microsoft.
So, it's not possible to reach the support, there is no email address, and I can't create issues. What a joke. I wish people in FOSS community stopped using github.
In the end, I just found the dev's email address and sent them an email.
This sounds very familiar.
This is a grocery list manager. What the hell did it even get flagged for?
Apparently the account got flagged, not even the repo itself.
By now I think they left the driver wheel to chatgpt and hope for the best.
~~chatgpt~~ copilot^®^
iran hit the wrong datacenter is my assumption with Micro$oft®'s Github™ just for fun
Reason 9999 to self host and back up
More like 89.91... they dream of four nines.
Microslop doing microslop things....
GH “fixed it” and it 404s now too ¯\(ツ)/¯
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