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This is one of those things you don’t really want to announce. It’s best to quietly make the migration and sweep it under the rug.

ian-g 4y ago
I mean, as far as annoucements go, it's a pretty quiet one. We did this. We chose the obvious host. We like ordering commits chronologically, we came up with something for that. Ok bye.
- williamscales 4y ago
  Does Apple not have an internal department that handles this for all their teams? Seems kinda weird for a division of a company to even have to choose their host.
  - olliej 4y ago
    The Open-source projects generally do things separately - e.g. llvm, as you're otherwise requiring apple set up a new account system (blocking contributing on iCloud account would seem less great), and building up its own UI and infrastructure for a git interface. Also given that GitHub is a somewhat universally understood host that people seem to like, and it has all that UI/development integration that people like it kind of makes sense to just use that. It also seems that having GitHub accounts is increasingly widely spread so contributors would not necessarily have to create yet another account with yet another service.
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- pipeline_peak 4y ago
  Why risk anything at all, who outside webkit developers needs to know this? Idk how investors, or any powerful external entities think, but switching to Git in 2022 isn't net positive news. It may be a subtle announcement, but it made it's way onto the forum of a Startup generator / Investment fund.
jon-wood 4y ago
Why wouldn’t an open source project announce a change to the place their source is hosted on their own blog? Why would they want to sweep it under the rug?
barkingcat 4y ago
No way ... as an open source project this is the kind of thing you want to tell everyone.
fomine3 4y ago
It's done silently before months ago (I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31857451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31857451 )

ian-g 4y ago

I mean, as far as annoucements go, it's a pretty quiet one. We did this. We chose the obvious host. We like ordering commits chronologically, we came up with something for that. Ok bye.

williamscales 4y ago
Does Apple not have an internal department that handles this for all their teams? Seems kinda weird for a division of a company to even have to choose their host.
- olliej 4y ago
  The Open-source projects generally do things separately - e.g. llvm, as you're otherwise requiring apple set up a new account system (blocking contributing on iCloud account would seem less great), and building up its own UI and infrastructure for a git interface. Also given that GitHub is a somewhat universally understood host that people seem to like, and it has all that UI/development integration that people like it kind of makes sense to just use that. It also seems that having GitHub accounts is increasingly widely spread so contributors would not necessarily have to create yet another account with yet another service.
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pipeline_peak 4y ago
Why risk anything at all, who outside webkit developers needs to know this? Idk how investors, or any powerful external entities think, but switching to Git in 2022 isn't net positive news. It may be a subtle announcement, but it made it's way onto the forum of a Startup generator / Investment fund.

jon-wood 4y ago

Why wouldn’t an open source project announce a change to the place their source is hosted on their own blog? Why would they want to sweep it under the rug?

barkingcat 4y ago

No way ... as an open source project this is the kind of thing you want to tell everyone.

fomine3 4y ago

It's done silently before months ago (I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31857451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31857451 )