Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: github's copilot feature

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 11:27:56AM +0500, Anna wrote:
> On 2022-07-16 14:56, John Helmert III wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 06:35:32PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 5:43 PM William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:33:43PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I just found out while I was on vacation about Github's copilot feature.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > It looks like the SFC is urging foss developers to ditch github over
> > > > this.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> Very bad idea. That would break sync mirrors for hundreds of users.

The last time I checked, we only rely officially on *.gentoo.org (gentoo
infra) per our social contract as primary infrastructure. I think we
need to be sure users understand that github.com/gentoo is secondary and
could go away any time.

William


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