Insane that Github blocked their entire development without discussing it with them though. Ban the contributor, not the entire open source project.

Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

Not according to that thread - it looks like they don't yet know what caused it:

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761

No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.

Yep I got one too. Works great and self hosted. I swear its actually faster than GH is nowadays.

And I like that it doesn't try to advertise and recommend a ton of repos to do you like GH does now.

One of their main contributors are in US sanctioned regions (Russia) so they can't access it.

American here, please do this.

All of our companies are run by scumbags taking advantage of useful idiots. We need more options and legitimate competition.

Has been since 2018, and acquisition news caused quite an upset at the time.

Yeah they bought them almost 10 years now?

VS Code has a fully open source base which excludes proprietary extensions and default telemetry ( kind of how AOSP is for Android)

Check here for more info:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code

Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as "from a US-sanctioned region" and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.

you can say shit on here. also fuck and cock and ass. it's the internet

Forgejo is in fact working on being decentralized, just like the underlying git structure is. There are some first federation things in there, but the full implementation is still pretty far out.

Git is already decentralized, nothing is stopping you from adding multiple remotes to your repo.

Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think

Remember kids, racism and bigotry are always okay if it's against the right people.

The US supplied 80% of the bombs dropped on Gaza.

Do you believe US civilians should be prohibited from interacting with the rest of the world?

I don't think I want my government deciding who can contribute to my open source project.

When Trump gets into a dick measuring contest with a US ally and sanctions them, POOF foreign contributors are gone. Community management, codebase familiarity, and open PRs be damned. It'll kill open source projects.

Seemingly one of the contributors has visited a disputed region and logged into GitHub from there. By law (export controls) Microsoft must not provide service to that place. So some automatism flagged the account and also the organic maps repo. So far so normal. But either Microsoft dragged it's feet in communicating and resolving the issue or the organic maps team was not doing their part in the process. Doesn't matter, the outcome is still worth it.