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Thank you for coming forward in many discussions (not only HN), and giving time for people's questions. I resent the way things went down, such as removing peo
by nymisunderrated 12y ago
Thank you for coming forward in many discussions (not only HN), and giving time for people's questions.
I resent the way things went down, such as removing people's repositories, and paying gitorious developers to shut down the project. Those are history now, and I can't say they prevents anyone (anyone paying attention, that is) from taking a different route - fortunately, both projects are freely licensed and data is in git repositories.
They raise questions about the future though: next time people's code would be also removed? Will there be at least three months then, or less?
Why exactly doesn't Gitlab move freely licensed projects?
Since it bought the gitorious.org site, it's like you have two hosting sites, and want to close one down. For freely-licensed projects, making a copy is easy (whether people use it or not) - if Gitlab wanted to.
- sytse 12y agoWe didn't put Gitorious to shut down the project. Gitorious was no longer sustainable. We don't move projects because we don't want to move them to a new organization and url without explicit consent. We're working with archive.org to make sure nothing is lost.