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GNU projects don't use GitHub.
by davexunit 11y ago
GNU projects don't use GitHub.
- wyldfire 11y agoAs in "haven't" or are barred by FSF or other policy?
- davexunit 11y agoThey haven't, and they shouldn't want to. Relying upon GitHub, a centralized, proprietary service, would be working against the mission of GNU.
- iwwr 11y agoIt's more the fact that Github keeps their own code (server and client) as proprietary and so the service is not a free software offering.
- JohnTHaller 11y agoAs github is a closed source proprietary service, it's a bad fit for FSF.
- drmpeg 11y agoGNU Radio is on Github. Although it's a mirror, it's up to date and devs use it for the majority of pull requests. https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio
- jlarocco 11y agoLots of GNU projects (and projects from SF, etc.) are mirrored on GitHub. None of the GNU projects (that I've ever seen) are officially hosted on GitHub.
- agumonkey 11y agoComplementary answer from r/emacs (courtesy or parent) https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3hsab9/could_emacs_be_hosted_on_github/ https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3hsab9/could_emacs_b...
- _delirium 11y agoI don't think any of the "big" free-software projects do, though some do have mirrors on GitHub. The Linux kernel, the FreeBSD project, LLVM, Firefox, etc. all host their own version-control infrastructure (which makes sense to me).
- scrollaway 11y agoAll the projects you mention predate github. A lot of it has to do with the fact that infrastructure for these projects was put in place before Github was a thing.
- justincormack 11y agoFreeBSD now does merges from github so they can accept pull requests.