Give up GitHub: The time has come
As a leader of a FOSS project that is on github, and migrated off of sourceforge because SVN and email patches were not scaling - I&#x27;m a bit confused by this article.<p>Co-pilot has issues, ergo github is going the way of sourceforge, and so now we must abandon github? Do I have that reasoning correct?<p>We need to:<p>- migrate the bug queue<p>- have all links in commit history break<p>- application integration with githib for bug reporting be removed<p>- update documentation<p>- find a new website host (and no longer github.io)<p>- find a new CI&#x2F;CD (we were already burned by travis, github workflows are nice)<p>- teach our user contributors to actually use git! There has been a lot of heartache from them that they have to use the pencil icon on a web ui to edit config files, now we have to take them back to using a git GUI client! We were on github before that blessed pencil icon feature came out, there was no end to the wailing about how unapproachable the process was (super frustrating when users see they have to do something.. frustrating for us because our users wanted to just email is stuff so we could then do the uploading to git work)<p>- lose all PR history<p>- migrate project tracking<p>- find a new place to host release artifacts<p>- update our website to use a new distribution URL (the website scrapes github api to get latest version for download link; it&#x27;s nice never updating website as we do releases on every merge)<p>- figure out and migrate repository permissions. (We have a hundred repositories of user generated plugin content, everything about migrating that would be a lot of work and missing important features)<p>- lose our search ranking and rebuild our SEO<p>What else to add to this pile.. and <i>all</i> because co-pilot smells?? Meanwhile all of that work is busy work, and not at all feature-pare. That kind of migration would take a long time, seems like that pivot without good reason is the worst kind of churn.  Convince me this article is not a temper tantrum about copilot...