“European sovereignty!!!” Hosts it on Github.
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sovereignty != isolation
Microsoft sucks, but what exactly is the threat you’re trying to mitigate by not putting their Office suite on GH? Microsoft deciding to disappear it or take control of it one day? MS does a ton of business in Europe, so they have a lot more to risk than PR history for tools that the devs would all still have on their machines (and thus could migrate at any time to another code repo).
There’s not a readily-available European alternative to Github, and no, Codeberg is not one, because the value of GH is not just hosting code, it’s being a well-known place to find code. If you want a “European alternative” to GH, you’d first need to create an internationally-famous, known-by-all-developers platform. But that’s not “in scope” for their EU-Office tool.
Exactly, they are focusing on what they do well, and letting others do their part elsewhere.
Are we to criticize Euro-Office when they don’t drive European made cars too?
Perfection is the enemy of progress
Not even doing the bare minimum is also the enemy of progress.
I would say that poor foundational choices are also the enemy of progress too.
Fortunately, migrating off Github to something like Codeberg is quite easy (or so I’ve heard).
But I do wonder what it bodes for other choices they’re making.
It makes me feel like when people insist it would take an astronomical amount of effort to move their community off of discord.
I know it will but you are worse than wasting your time putting that decision off because it will limit your community in ways you cannot even perceive yet.
Stop wasting everyone’s time, don’t build houses on top of destabilized sinking mud and expect people to move in, and if they do now you have a MUCH bigger problem on your hands than the challenge of building a new building since you have to convince people the old building which looks fine is not safe.
From a source code perspective, moving is as easy as pushing it to another platform. Everything uses git under the hood.
However, all the project mgmt stuff like issues and PRs and releases aren’t as easy
