After 17 years on GitHub, I have made the difficult decision to migrate from GitHub to a SciActive hosted instance of Forgejo.
It’s not exactly a secret that GitHub has been having a rough time, recently. More importantly, GitHub seems to be playing a bit fast and loose with its users’ data, with regard to AI. These things have concerned me enough that I strongly feel it’s time to move away from GitHub. I am proud of the software that I write, and it’s all written by humans, without the help of AI. Port87 has a strong stance against the use of AI in email and software development.
SciActive software will now be hosted and developed on a custom instance of Forgejo at https://forge.sciactive.com.
We have already migrated all of the Port87 code and infrastructure (these are private repositories, so they are not visible to the public). We will be migrating our remaining repositories slowly over the next several months. The open source repositories will remain on GitHub as mirrors, but issue tracking and pull requests will all be handled on the SciActive Forge. We have configured our forge to allow users to log in with both a GitHub and a GitLab account, which should allow us to remain accessible to the open source community we have served for over a decade.
This move allows us to maintain full control over even more of our infrastructure. At this point, we have very few outside services that we rely on, which allows us to remain online even when large service providers experience outages. This also helps us better maintain our users privacy. Having confidential information (like production SSH keys and environment configuration files) remain only on our on-premise servers allows us to ensure that information, along with our users’ personal information, remains private.
GitHub has been a wonderful provider, and I don’t want this announcement to be perceived as me throwing any shade toward them. I still think GitHub is a great company, I just personally disagree with the direction they have decided to pursue. Thank you to everyone at GitHub for the work you do.