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What happened to Organic Maps? (lemmy.nowsci.com)

submitted 5 months ago by fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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The GitHub repos at https://github.com/organicmaps are all public archives now, but there's no information on them about why.

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 118 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

We have a temporary glitch with GitHub—probably some contributor was geolocated in a sanctioned region (no details yet). All required documents to unlock the account have been uploaded. Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub - it is just U.S. law. Please be patient. It should be unblocked soon.

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 67 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the information. We agree with the first commenter though, more people and projects should move away from GitHub and to CodeBerg or their own ForgeJo instance.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looks like everyone on Mastodon feels the same way. (As do I.)

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Agreed. We really wish more open source projects would move to CodeBerg or their own ForgeJo instance as we find GitHub needlessly complex and poorly designed. GitHub also feels like a place for 'rockstar' developers whereas CodeBerg feels more like a place where development can happen more equally and there's no status, at least the same as there is on GitHub. Last but by no means least there's no built in LLM bullshit built into CodeBerg or ForgeJo stealing code, which is nice.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Totally off topic, but this is the first I've noticed Forge Jo. I've spoken Esperanto for years, and instantly see this as the Esperanto word for forge "forĝejo".

The hat on the G makes it a soft G. And the J is pronounced like the Y sound in fjord.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 2 points 5 months ago

Been there, it ended fine. Cheer up.