Re: brainstorming: moving away from github?

rayg via gdal-dev <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:51:17 +0000 (UTC)

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Yesterday, MS CEO posted on LinkedIn how Copilot is now even more inside Office. Agentic AI everywhere. So github will probably get even sloppier. MS has absolutely no intention of restraint on AI.

Ray

On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 10:25 AM Even wrote:

Hi,

not something we should rush into, but we should maybe start considering
a better alternative. The github experience has been really worsening
over the last months. Hardly an incident every day lately (actions being
degraded at the very moment of writing this email). Not speaking about
their obsession to stuff AI everywhere they can.

Codeberg could be such an alternative. Anyone with practical experience
with it, in particular with a project of the size of GDAL ? My main
worry is about CI capabilities & capacity. We are quite heavy burners of
it. I believe they don't have arm64 runners either, which would be a
blocker for us. If there are paying plans with reasonable economics,
IMHO it could make sense to spend sponsorship money for that. And being
fully aware there would be a non trivial amount of work to complete a
migration... So not an easy road if we decided to follow it, but given
the current situation, that's worth keeping that in mind.

Even

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