Firefox is now officially hosted on Github!
Firefox is now officially hosted on Github!
github.com
GitHub - mozilla-firefox/firefox: The official repository of Mozilla's Firefox web browser.
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Strange how so many, are so quick to anger towards Firefox. I have used it since Navigator, and I've always felt quite safe with it. I am in awe of a browser that not only competes, but also surpasses other browsers with a ton more money behind it.
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And this is... good?
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Yes, it's incredibly good.
If Firefox is trying to get more developers on board with working on it than being on the largest development platform helps them.
It's a move that should benefit Firefox by making open source contributions more accessible And bringing in more developers.
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so they're getting rid of mercurial and self hosting? not sure if this is positive..
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Yes
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It is still an improvement as this makes it easier to bring in more people.
With that being said, I think it would've been better to use Forgejo.
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Generally thats concerning.
But hopefully this means its easier to find and submit bug reports. Their issue tracker beforewm was a terrible UX.
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Not only that, it's easier to contribute. And generally more accessible to more developers. Which is a damn good thing.
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Real question, why downgrade to a proprietary host?
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My guess is they're preparing for the Google search money to vanish and cutting costs wherever they can however small and hosting their own code repo was one thing to go.
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Hosting the code is probably non-material as far as costs go for Mozilla, and I doubt they would ever recoup the costs of migrating the code off their current solution in terms of engineering costs.
If I had to guess, this is them meeting other Open Source contributors where they usually are, which in large part is GitHub these days.
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That would seem a bit extreme, I was thinking more that they want to lower the barrier to contributions, but who knows, it could be. Both would positively affect the economical aspect of things after all
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RIP
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And this is how you make a meme, fellow kids!
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Didn’t they move to Microsoft for hosting quite some time ago?
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they only had this mirror
https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/
but it seems they were using mercurial at https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/
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