Isn't all of their concern kind of demonstrated to be unfounded? CoMaps forked the exact codebase being discussed and moved to Codeberg already, and they're doing great now. Whatever it is that the Organic Maps team thinks is indispensable on GitHub is clearly not actually an insurmountable challenge to ditch.

I switched from OrganicMaps to CoApps recently. CoMaps is a fork or OrganicMaps. One of the things they fix is that they moved the source from Github to Codeberg.

I use and donate[d] to OrganicMaps. I think they're great, but I paused donations around the CoMaps split and have been waiting for the dust to settle. Their responses in the fosstodon thread seem so tone def: They're asking about github on a mastodon instance and responding that it'll be a worse product if they move. Thinking it's time I give CoMaps a shot. [edit: add 2nd link for context]

Github gets an F rating as an ethical repository per gnu.org.

https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html

Criteria for above: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html

See also: https://sanctum.geek.nz/why-not-github.html

All of the above are pretty old and things have surely changed since then, but probably for the worse.

I will never understand the Free software developers that go to bat for GitHub.

Microsoft hates you and everything you spend countless hours building for free. They steal your work and sell shittier versions of it for exorbitant profit that they do not share with the community. They contract with ICE. They sell AI tools to Israel to help them commit genocide, and their CI offering is a total fucking mess.

I use and recommend OSMAnd, but if you absolutely need an app that does less, CoMaps is a better choice

https://GiveUpGitHub.org

That's a dead project, killed by CoMaps and just bleeding slowly from the wound. I don't care about where they're hosted, but I do about fucking Kayak ads, that's a deal breaker.

If something works, don't change it. And GitHub, not being ideal, works pretty well.

You should edit the post title to say "on GitHub" instead of whatever is currently going on there.

Just use CoMaps.

It looks like less of a call for actual feedback and more a call for positive reinforcement for their decision to be on there.

I'm not a user. But in my opinion, it is more important to be seen as a small project than blindly following foss. Maintaining two repos is a lot of work.

I also use as much foss as possible, no facebook, etc. but if the added benefit is large enough, one should do it. I'd much rather have an osm app with a billion users on github than a thousand on codeberg.

Not a good look for OM in that mastodon thread. Happy to have moved to CoMaps.