Major open‑source projects may increasingly migrate mirrors, PR workflows and community contributions off commercial code hosts when those vendors repeatedly push integrated AI tooling or other vendor‑first defaults. That movement is a governance choice to preserve developer autonomy, provenance, and non‑profit hosting models.
— If it accelerates, code‑host migration will fragment the developer commons, alter the economics of developer identity and discovery, and make software‑supply‑chain resilience a public‑policy issue.
EditorDavid
2026.01.11
100% relevant
Gentoo’s 2025 retrospective explicitly cites 'continuous attempts to force Copilot usage' and says it plans to migrate mirrors and pull‑request contributions to Codeberg/Forgejo while keeping primary git in‑house.
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