GitHub considered harmful

[Michael Gratton]

Hi all,

It has recently come to light[0] that GitHub has recently made a 
deliberate decision to renew a US$260M contract with the U.S. 
Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

Since contributing to Flatpak and Flathub requires a GitHub account, 
these projects are using, promoting and encouraging others to use the 
services of a company that has deliberately chosen to profit from the 
physical and mental abuse of certain races of people. Flatpak and 
Flathub are by extension of using GitHub's infrastructure benefiting 
from this abuse, also.

My understanding of the choice of GitHub in the first place was to gain 
initial traction for the projects, since the existing FDO 
infrastructure was dated, and as a desktop-neutral development forum. 
Since then, Flatpak is now very well established, and FDO has its own 
GitLab instance, leaving only the third issue.

As such, and in light of the developments above, I would like to 
propose a move from GitHub to another service. This could be the FDO 
GitLab instance, gitlab.com, or some other suitable, desktop-neutral 
service.

Would it be possible to get an idea of what the main technical hurdles 
for this would be? From my perspective the two big issues are 
automating the migration of the repos and updating the build 
infrastructure and integration. Does that sound about right?

Cheers,
//Mike


[0] - 
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ljH74APGOTVl_dxs-H_f5M4YuvMUBfdq/view>

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