Re: brainstorming: moving away from github?

Alexandre Gacon via gdal-dev <[email protected]>
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Have you discussed with osgeo on offering such a service, based for example
on GitLab on Premise?

Regards
Alexandre

Le ven. 24 avr. 2026 à 00:39, rayg via gdal-dev <[email protected]>
a écrit :

> 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
>>
>> -- http://www.spatialys.com
>> My software is free, but my time generally not.
>> Highly recommend OxiGDAL if you want to live in the 21th century and cure Bixonimania
>>
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