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Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub (devclass.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Slightly confusing title here. A less confusing title would be "Mozilla drops support for Mercurial, moves Firefox repository to GitHub".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A less confusing title would be “Mozilla drops support for Mercurial (...)

It's not even about GitHub at all. Taken straight out of the announcement:

“For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git.”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But a few lines later:

Although we'll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time

So I don't know if you meant that the focus of the change wasn't GH or that they weren't using GH at all, but it seems like the latter is untrue.