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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by heavyset_go on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:02PM (#28795275)
Project maintainers had their projects moved from their public GitHub accounts to the DNF's GitHub Enterprise account without notice. Some maintainers only found out about the transfers of their projects because of this[1] discussion.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/38

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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by robmen on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:17AM (#28796568)
Technically speaking it wasn't that discussion. That discussion was opened after we started realizing what had (and had not) happened. But your summary is otherwise correct. :)
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by flowerlad on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:22PM (#28795393)
So nothing changed with the source code or its licensing, only the location on github? That seems a bit inconsequential, tbh. Are there strings attached to the new location? If no, then move on.
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by ethbr0 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:44PM (#28795516)
Per post, being part of a GitHub Enterprise organization grants the GEO's owners control over any projects contained in that organization.

That's the change.

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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by flowerlad on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:49PM (#28795550)
Thank you. That does seem consequential.
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by oaiey on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:37AM (#28796073)
Yeah and is not wrong for the foundation and the projects. It is the absolute lack of community, communication and tone deafness.
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by robmen on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:18AM (#28796571)
Exactly.
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by kevin_b_er on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:38PM (#28795485)
You'd not say the same thing if the ownership of a domain changed hands quietly, in the background.
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by quickthrower2 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:52PM (#28795568)
That would be worse though. This is like a subdomain changing hands quietly. E.g. you mypage.github.io.
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by heavyset_go on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:36AM (#28796067)
There were also pull requests that were merged despite maintainers' objections to merging.
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by robmen on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:19AM (#28796580)
That didn't happen to me and there was a pretty comprehensive (IMHO) apology about that issue.
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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by arvindamirtaa on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:44AM (#28796715)
There are strings attached to the new location - the maintainers can (in theory) be kicked out of their own repositories.
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