From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: github's copilot feature
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 16:27:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_nV36nTi4=qo84-+-9achCiE3Uxkw6dWRXDHEFgva2b+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YtMX61Arezuuua9U@gentoo.org>
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 3:56 PM John Helmert III <ajak@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 06:35:32PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >
> > I get the sentiment, but I don't see what direct impact it will have.
> > If Gentoo stops using Github all our code will inevitably still be on
> > there and will still end up being used to train copilot.
>
> Inevitably? If most of our activity moves somewhere else, I don't see
> why we couldn't blow away all of https://github.com/gentoo.
>
Setting aside any concerns about pull requests/etc that are
effectively stored only there, even if we deleted it we're still
talking about git. Sooner or later somebody will push a copy of
things there, so even if we aren't proactively mirroring repositories
anything anybody does that is GPL is pretty likely to end up there. A
repo might be gitlab-only for years, and then somebody does a git
push, and now the entire history is on github the same as if we were
doing every push there the whole time.
Information wants to be free and all that... (And in this case it is
completely legal.)
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-16 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-14 21:33 [gentoo-project] rfc: github's copilot feature William Hubbs
2022-07-14 21:43 ` William Hubbs
2022-07-14 22:35 ` James Le Cuirot
2022-07-15 3:22 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-07-15 7:35 ` James Le Cuirot
2022-07-14 22:35 ` Rich Freeman
2022-07-16 19:56 ` John Helmert III
2022-07-16 20:27 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2022-07-17 19:19 ` William Hubbs
2022-07-17 19:42 ` Rich Freeman
2022-07-17 20:33 ` William Hubbs
2022-07-17 20:45 ` William Hubbs
2022-07-18 6:03 ` Michał Górny
2022-07-19 8:41 ` Roy Bamford
2022-07-18 10:22 ` Matthias Maier
2022-07-18 11:52 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-07-18 13:04 ` Rich Freeman
2022-07-17 6:27 ` Anna
2022-07-17 20:08 ` William Hubbs
2022-07-18 6:21 ` Anna
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