Gentoo has quietly begun the long, deliberate task of pulling its contributor-facing mirrors off GitHub and onto Codeberg, a move the distribution frames as a practical workaround for an ethical and operational problem: GitHub’s increasingly aggressive push of Copilot-style AI features into...
Gentoo has opened a presence on Codeberg and is now accepting pull requests there for its primary ebuild mirror — the first concrete step in a planned, gradual migration away from Microsoft-owned GitHub driven largely by objections to GitHub Copilot and related AI-driven workflows.
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Gentoo’s first public step away from Microsoft’s GitHub to Codeberg crystallizes a wider, uncomfortable reality for open source: as AI assistants get easier to use they’re also becoming an operational and ethical liability for projects that prize provenance, license fidelity, and...
Gentoo has quietly started the operational phase of a migration away from GitHub by placing its primary ebuild repository on Codeberg and inviting contributions there — a deliberate, community-driven move shaped as much by technical caution as by a principled resistance to platform-driven AI...