Open discussion on usage of a code sharing platform

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Dear community,

big fan of your work, and a user of your services for a while now. I haven’t found anything on this forum regarding my point. Thus, I hope it is not a duplicate.

I would like to spark the discussion on whether there are any considerations in the association to migrate their code repositories away from the for-profit GitHub, and towards another non-profit, public-benefit purpose association. A logical choice could be Codeberg. Similar to deSEC, Codeberg is a German public-benefit association, also seated in Berlin.

Are there any members already considering and discussing such a migration? Or are there reasons not so obvious to me to stick to GitHub?

Do not get me wrong, GitHub does an excellent job and is often the go-to platform for hosting (public) code repositories. Nonetheless, is it driven by commercial interests. While deSEC benefits from the service of GitHub, I don’t immediately see how Codeberg does not offer a competable service.

Any opinions on this matter?

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Hi @resingm,

Thanks for your message, and welcome to deSEC! :-1:

We’re with GitHub for historical reasons. If we started over, we might go elsewhere. However, at the moment there does not seem to be much of an advantage in prioritizing the migration, although a considerable effort would be associated with it (specifically, migrating all the GitHub actions), so we don’t have that on our roadmap at the moment.

Happy to be educated, however, in case we’re misassessing the situation!

Stay secure.
Peter

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