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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by rednut on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:01AM (#25093088)
So what if Github itself is not OSS? The technology behind is already open source and decentralized. You can switch to a Gitlab instance with just a few mouse clicks while also migrating your issues and pull requests.
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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by thekyle on Saturday November 14, 2020 @08:05PM (#25097137)
I don't believe issues or pull requests are part of the Git repo. If there is a way to migrate them it would involve some GitHub API which could be shut down.
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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by Arnavion on Saturday November 14, 2020 @08:28PM (#25097290)
The commits in pull requests are part of the git repo, in that they can be fetched from the repo's remote. The comments are not.
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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by samoa42 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:08AM (#25100537)
as said; the issues are not part of the repo.

as much as many projects could use a clean slate here, i dont think the burden of migranting them manually or the act of just dumping them is realistic.

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Re:Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat ... by CharlesW on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:46PM (#25095034)
> So what if Github itself is not OSS? The technology behind is already open source…

So is much of the technology behind Discourse.[1]

[1] https://discord.com/open-source (click on "OS Libraries")

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