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At the size of Mozilla I wonder what would be the threshold for them to decide to commit to basically move to their own github like interface to manage all of t
by hrktb 8y ago
At the size of Mozilla I wonder what would be the threshold for them to decide to commit to basically move to their own github like interface to manage all of that.
I assume even maintaining a private gitlab would have a non trivial cost and need dedicated OPS as well at their size.
- cjbprime 8y agoThey already do that for their main codebases; as the article says, this is just about their use of GitHub for other projects.
- jvehent 8y agoIt's not just a matter of operational cost. We spend a lot of time and effort making our code accessible to new contributors, and lowering that barrier is very important. Contributing to code in Mercurial is hard (but getting easier with Phabricator), whereas code in GitHub is easily accessible. There is also the question of integrating with external services. GitHub has a very mature ecosystem that's helpful to developers and lets us ship better products faster.
- ElBarto 8y agoConsidering how sensitive piece of software browsers are these days, I would think that security should be the priority.