[Battlemesh] massive moving from github to gitlab?

Benjamin Henrion zoobab at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 08:35:53 UTC 2018


On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 10:30 Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am using GitLab (and gitlab.com) for a year now and I must say I am
> really impressed. Its integrated CI is way better than any combination
> of GitHub + Travis CI or CircleCI. Just smooth. I have also had to
> migrate from a private GitLab to gitlab.com and it really feels great
> that you can do export/import of whole project. You just own data.
>
> I am missing only:
>
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013
>
> Fun:
>
> https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer?orgId=1
>
>
> Mitar
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought was good idea to spread here the message so more communities
> > can think about it.
> >
> > Github was adquired by Microsoft, problems:
> >
> > - Copyright related stuff [1]
> > - More aggressive DMCA? [2] => if this is not an isolated case, that's
> > going to be bad doing reverse engineering in github repos
> > - The known lack of trust to Microsoft products, philosophy, strategy.
> > Is Microsoft going to "Open source", or is trying to be destroy it
> > from inside?
>

Not to mention the aggresive and destructive patent strategy. That alone is
a good motivation to run away and to delete all your data on github, using
GDPR if needed.

All my repos are migrated to gitlab.com s of today, I will nuke my account
today and erase all my data from there, including the battlemesh ones.

Please migrate the WBM org somewhere else.

Best,

>
> > It's just few clicks [3] to migrate
> >
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
> >
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/do-githubs-updated-terms-of-service-conflict-with-copyleft
> > https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20170301-tg.htm
> > http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/removing_everything_from_github/
> >
> http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/what_I_would_ask_my_lawyers_about_the_new_Github_TOS/
> >
> > [2]
> >
> > Sadly, if they insist on this, it will only be trouble for opensource
> > applications.
> > Ardour, Qtractor, Carla, MusE, LMMS and others all use this vestige
> > header... making it "illegal" would mean our beloved tools will simply
> > drop VST support.
> >
> >
> https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-dev/2018-June/037131.html
> >
> > [3] https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/import/github.html from
> > https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/
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