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- programming@beehaw.org
- firefox@lemmy.ml
- firefox@lemmy.world
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That’s a read-only mirror, not a “move onto GitHub”.
PRs get automatically closed, referring to the contrib docs.
It looks like the main repository. The “How to submit a patch” mentions even the github repository. Even though it does not accept pull requests it seems to be not just a mirror.
I was about to reply with a “oh, really? Whoops, I maybe should I have looked a little deeper” and edited for the post title, but I’m not so sure, looking into the first link you posted.
RE: phabricator…I don’t know what that service is or is for, so I can’t comment if there’s any proof therein.
But the “how to submit a patch” page linked has a section that seems to at least suggest that their Github repo is now first-class, per the first line of the section.
That’s very good. Once I wanted to compile Firefox myself for some reason I no longer remember, but their Mercurial-based system was a hassle to work with. Most of us are already familiar with git. So, I know I’m going to be more inclined to make code contributions now that it uses git.
Just wish they could’ve chosen another git-based option like Codeberg, or even an internally-hosted server. I’m rather wary of GitHub/Microsoft swallowing up so many open source projects.
Seems that they’re not accepting pull-requests via GitHub, which is a bit of shame.
Inertia’s a bitch, and they started before git existed. It was a dark time.
It’s sad that an entity the importance and the size of Mozilla chose GitHub over self-hosting. It’s insane they were still using Mercurial in 2025.
They aren’t moving, it’s a code mirror. Everyone seems to be misreporting this. There’s a GitHub action to auto close PRs.
It’s not a mirror. It’s the primary repository. And yes unfortunately they aren’t accepting PRs or using it for issue tracking, but it’s a start.
It’s insane they were still using Mercurial in 2025.
What?
What what? Mercurial is dead. Not even Facebook use it any more.
Bc this seems to be a crosspost, imma cross-comment:
I get wanting to phase out Mercurial in favour of git. But why did they have to choose Github T_T
Ideally they would have just hosted a their own Frgejo instance (heck, a Gitlab one would have been much better FFS). Even just using Codeberg and donating would have been better
The for-profit side of Mozilla seems to have succeeded in purging most of the principles Mozilla used to have (IK they have been eroding over the years and sometimes been too “pragmatic”, this is just the cherry on top of a long series of shitpiles)
If Mozialla actually stood for a free/libre future they’d push Forgejo to the lvl they need it to be (if it already isn’t capable of all that stuff. Haven’t rly interacted much with it). Since they will still keep the CI/CD on Mercurial for now, there is even less valid reasons for using Github…
Also a devclass post Mozilla quietly makes Microsoft’s GitHub the authoritative home for Firefox code suggests FF is making the GH repo the place to go as the source of truth for FF, :( This move to me is really sad, instead of moving to FLOSS alternatives it’s preferring a proprietary with a terrible hosting licensing (gitlab one is much better for example, not sure about codeberg’s one, but for sure is better as well), and what’s worse, one that uses anything hosted in there for its own purposes, including feeding openAI stuff with FLOSS code violating any licenses and so forth. Which actually makes me strengthen the idea that mozilla is trending to go in the wrong direction making things worse on every step they follow.
I use a derivative, Librewolf, but in the end it depends on the FF code… Sadly, using GH is still like the norm, and I can change that. servo browser engine and verso (browser based on servo) are also hosted on GH. But at least they started there and migrating is always a hard decision, FF is just moving there having other options, so it means they don’t care about GH mistreating users code…
But why?
I would guess Mozilla is making plans for what happens when Chrome is sold. Now that Firefox has proven to be an inadequate antitrust shield for Chrome, there is no longer any reason for Google to continue funding them.
how does moving to github help them if chrome is sold?
I’m not the OP, but it’s probably easier to get (free) community contributions on Github than on any other spot.
Or it’s to make it easier to fork, in case Mozilla goes out of business.
