No one said we don't need a plan B. We had a plan B before moving to github. In fact, the move to github only happened because people were assured we'd always have a plan B. Why? Because github's servers are in the US, and many of the dev team didn't like the idea to put our sources in US computers.
I will proceed to ignore everything after your first line, because it's mindless paranoia. You do have a point about the issues, except we don't host them on github, so only the Pull Requests would remain, and i'm 100% sure if github becomes hostile, we'll have plenty time to make a copy of the data. [I was typing that and the power blinked off long enough to shut down my pc ¬¬] On 5 June 2018 at 19:43, M. Ziggyesque <ziggyes...@hotmail.com> wrote: > No, I don't see it as pointless to have a plan B. It's more a question of > when, not if, it's desirable, given past practices. > > Even with no immediate changes, github can no longer be considered > vendor-neutral. Down the road, as example, M$ may well try to require every > project adopt their code-signing policy or the project gets deleted, so > they get their kickbacks on all the certificate fees that would entail. ROS > doesn't require code-signing?? DELETE!! They did similar when they bought > out sysinternals, bloated all their utilities with certificates, so that's > a distinct possibility. > > While migrating the repo itself is easy, the issues list and other history > is less so, plus the hassle of getting links on external pages to redirect > to a new home; those would take some lead time so imo is better to have > some plan than not. > > ------ Original message------ > *From: *David Quintana (gigaherz) > *Date: *Tue, Jun 5, 2018 4:40 AM > *To: *ReactOS Development List; > *Cc: * > *Subject:*Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub > > To elaborate further: > > 1. The deal won't be closed for many months (they expect december) > 2. Microsoft probably won't change github at first (xcept maybe make > the login integrate with a Microsoft Account) > 3. We don't know what they plan to do with the platform in the long > term, so worrying now is pointless. > 4. We don't know that it will EVER be hostile toward ReactOS, even if > they break the platform and make it unusable, so chances are we are good. > 5. If worst comes to worst, as Thomas said, we just say goodbye to GH > and move elsewhere. > > > > On 5 June 2018 at 10:36, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo <elh...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> great! :) >> >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Faber <thomas.fa...@reactos.org> >> wrote: >> >>> To elaborate, we're not dependent on GitHub in any significant way. It's >>> just convenient. But if it stops being so, it's easy to go elsewhere. >>> That's a key part of Git, being a "distributed" VCS. >>> >>> >>> On 2018-06-05 10:31, Oleksandr Shaposhnikov wrote: >>> > No it may not. >>> > >>> > 5 черв. 2018 р. 11:24 Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo < >>> elh...@gmail.com> пише: >>> > >>> > May this affect ReactOS? >>> > >>> > https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github >>> -empowering-developers/ >>> <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.microsoft.com%2Fblog%2F2018%2F06%2F04%2Fmicrosoft-github-empowering-developers%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550395788&sdata=MphM9bR%2F0p14QXZQBKrHGfUK3cmOwVfNKDYXdqtBMVA%3D&reserved=0> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ros-dev mailing list >>> Ros-dev@reactos.org >>> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >>> <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reactos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fros-dev&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550552040&sdata=V8%2B3DEP1VRUt2B34MdmNxVef9urlPZ8tYoamkdKQdts%3D&reserved=0> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> Ros-dev@reactos.org >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >> <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reactos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fros-dev&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550552040&sdata=V8%2B3DEP1VRUt2B34MdmNxVef9urlPZ8tYoamkdKQdts%3D&reserved=0> >> > >
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