The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo’s desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft’s Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests.
Gentoo announced today they now have a presence on Codeberg and are welcoming code contributions there as an alternative to GitHub. Initially it’s their ebuild repository being hosted on Codeberg while eventually all Gentoo GitHub repositories will be migrated. Codeberg is based on Forgejo and hosted in Germany as a non-profit.
How does it push the limits of enterprise level support?
And I don’t think they’d need sponsors but volunteers to host the CI machines. Tapping into the community to provide those could possibly get a few. If effort were put into using some content addressed network, distribution of packages could further be spread.
And if radicle finally supported large repositories, it could actually be hosted there and distribution would happen across all nodes willing to host the project. But that’s not possible yet.
A lot of effort is being put into building a ecosystem for a proprietary Microslop platform. It’s a pity.