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I'd be curious to look at the list ported over and see if anything moved really mattered. The whole boycott was nonsense anyway. Microsoft has only agreed to b

I'd be curious to look at the list ported over and see if anything moved really mattered. The whole boycott was nonsense anyway. Microsoft has only agreed to buy GitHub; they can't actually buy and own it for about 6 months. So even if you had a legit fear of Microsoft, why would you even bother yet? Anything of importance on GitHub is going to take a while to move over anyway which is why I suspect the majority of these "moves" were people moving over repos that no one cares about. Microsoft's cloud business is up and coming and is already worth many billions of dollars. They are not going to jeopardize user trust, which could harm Azure, by messing with your little GitHub project.

philwelch 8y ago
There may be some people migrating from GitHub to boycott Microsoft, but most of the old guard free software folks weren't on GitHub to begin with. I think the biggest concern is just a lack of trust that Microsoft will fuck things up out of incompetence rather than malice. Another rationale is that, even if you reason it through and conclude that Microsoft isn't going to screw it up at all, the mere risk of GitHub being a SPOF is enough to support some alternatives. That might be a risk that existed pre-acquisition, but it's definitely come to attention. Also, GitLab has been getting better and better for awhile and capitalized on this really well from a marketing standpoint; let's give them some credit instead of assuming it's purely a negative reaction to GitHub and Microsoft.
- seba_dos1 8y ago
  > but most of the old guard free software folks weren't on GitHub to begin with This is important to remember. Some people were also openly hesitant to GitHub, but used it anyway due to its network effect. This seems like a perfect moment to reevaluate.
craftyguy 8y ago
> Anything of importance on GitHub is going to take a while to move over anyway Actually, not really. The importer is very good, issues and PR/MRs get moved over. The only adjustments have to be to CI if you used Travis.

philwelch 8y ago

There may be some people migrating from GitHub to boycott Microsoft, but most of the old guard free software folks weren't on GitHub to begin with. I think the biggest concern is just a lack of trust that Microsoft will fuck things up out of incompetence rather than malice. Another rationale is that, even if you reason it through and conclude that Microsoft isn't going to screw it up at all, the mere risk of GitHub being a SPOF is enough to support some alternatives. That might be a risk that existed pre-acquisition, but it's definitely come to attention. Also, GitLab has been getting better and better for awhile and capitalized on this really well from a marketing standpoint; let's give them some credit instead of assuming it's purely a negative reaction to GitHub and Microsoft.

seba_dos1 8y ago
> but most of the old guard free software folks weren't on GitHub to begin with This is important to remember. Some people were also openly hesitant to GitHub, but used it anyway due to its network effect. This seems like a perfect moment to reevaluate.

craftyguy 8y ago

> Anything of importance on GitHub is going to take a while to move over anyway Actually, not really. The importer is very good, issues and PR/MRs get moved over. The only adjustments have to be to CI if you used Travis.