Microsoft github acquisition official

[Shane Ambler]

On 07/06/2018 16:42, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 18:47:13 -0600
> The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:21:34AM +0000, Carmel NY wrote:
>>> I just heard that the deal was official. Microsoft acquired Github for
>>> 7.5 billion dollars.
>>>
>>> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17422788/microsoft-github-acquisition-official-deal
>>>
>>
>> Definitely the case!
>>
>> Time for an opengit.org!
> 
> 	Erm Gitlab ? From the Gitlab wikipedia entry:
> 
> ----------------
> In June 2018, the acquisition of competitor GitHub by Microsoft[24][25]
> caused a migration of over 250,000 projects to GitLab[26].
> ----------------
> 
> 	and June's hardly started.
> 

Bitbucket would be the other main one to migrate to but their 2G storage
limit might keep gitlab more popular.

While ports have USE_GITHUB, there aren't similar options for other repo
sources. Time to think about expanding this feature.

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Shane Ambler