Thanks for the info!
Just a random thought, but would some kind of partnership or merger between Mozilla and Codeberg... be good for both, and for the Internet?
Just a random thought, but would some kind of partnership or merger between Mozilla and Codeberg... be good for both, and for the Internet?
Mozilla's leadership has been bad for a while now, and while I currently use Forgejo for my personal stuff, what I saw of Forgejo's leadership in that issue makes me nervous about the parent organization as well.
Since they've deleted the criticism from the issue and removed it from the Internet Archive, I feel some level of obligation to get down my memory of that conversation before it fades, and here seems as good a place as any:
This person, crystal, applied to become an "enforcer" after previously having lost a lot of trust in the community. That bit you can still see, including the acknowledgement that this abuse of authority did occur. Someone posted saying basically that they still didn't trust crystal after whatever happened previously (they gave details of the story, but I don't remember them) and that they were opposed to their appointment to any position of authority, regardless of promises that they wouldn't do it again.
After a bit of back and forth, someone (I'm assuming Earl Warren) went in and edited all of this critic's comments with a note saying that the comments had been removed by the moderation team for "ad hominem attacks". That was disturbing to me at the time—the critic's criticisms were not non sequiturs, when someone is applying to be an "enforcer" their past abuse of authority is absolutely relevant!
And of course, now that I find that they have now memory-holed that discussion entirely I'm even more perturbed. That's not the behavior of an organization that deserves any of our trust, and I don't know how much of the bad behavior that I saw there applies to Codeberg as a whole.
It used to be a lot easier to think of do-gooder organizations in tech that seemed trustworthy, and easy decisions to back. I don't know how much it is change of the orgs, and how much it is that we have more information about them.
My next random idea would be the Internet Archive, taking up ensuring an open Git forge is available to society. There's arguably some overlap of mission, in preserving information, and they do big infrastructure already. But my wild first guess is that this probably isn't enough overlap for them to justify the investment it would require.
I don't think the FSF would be able to execute on anything viable, though there's mission overlap, and their heart is in the right place.