Three years ago I got my second #GitHub contribution matrix in steel:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/04/09/more-steel/

Yeps, those are the two i have. Nothing since.

More steel

I didn't expect this, and this year I wasn't asked ahead of time if I wanted to receive this gift. It is however something of a collector's item that I find very enjoyable. I received my GitHub contribution matrix printed in steel.

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I can't rank the issues for all of FOSS projects but to add one missing in your suggestions:

The increasing fragmentation of development platforms after a phase of >10 years of concentration on #GitHub.com. I think its decline started with the acquisition by #Microsoft. That wasn't good either but fragmentation makes it harder to get contributions by newcomers who are not yet part of your platform.

It's that magical time of the month again:

“Your GitHub Copilot access has been renewed” 🤡

#github #copilot #llm #ai #genai

https://sethmlarson.dev/your-github-copilot-access-has-been-renewed

Your GitHub Copilot access has been renewed 🤡

As a maintainer of a "popular open source project" ever since Copilot was announced I've been receiving monthly reminders that my free GitHub Copilot access has been renewed. If I was paying for t...

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This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/

"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."

#DataGov #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab

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Finally! https://sethmlarson.dev/how-to-disable-copilot-in-github

Thank you @harrysintonen for making me aware #github #copilot

How to disable Copilot in GitHub

For the first time in months GitHub has released a feature that I actually enjoy: a way to disable Copilot on the home screen. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for sharing this on Mastodon: Login to gith...

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Funny. That's exactly the number of times I will use it.

#GitHub #Copilot

During November 2024, the #CPython project ran exactly 96,697 CI jobs on GitHub.

That's an average of 134 CI jobs/hour.

The average run-time per job was 5m 37s.

That means we spent 13.97 days of CPU time per day.

#Python #CI #GitHubActions #GitHub

@markuswerle @jakob @pluralistic This is how I interpret the situation: #GitHub offers open source programs free access to GitHub actions today exactly as it did in the past. This access is limited in CPU performance and parallelism. It always was. All free CI services do this.

The #curl project was bumped to a fancier account to give us more actions powers: more CPU and more parallelism.

That is them doing us a favor and them supporting us, not the other way around.

Starting now, #curl is also apparently the curl "enterprise" on #GitHub.The curl enterprise owns the curl organization which owns the curl repository. From which you can build the curl tool.

Clearly we need more curl.

Free Software Foundation: #GitHub und #SourceForge kommen bei Hosting-Services-Untersuchung nicht gut weg | heise open

Als Hosting-Plattform, der ein exzellentes Umsetzen der Standards bescheinigt wird, geht jedoch allein das GNU-eigene Savannah hervor.

Als einzige weitere akzeptable Plattform zur Verwaltung von GNU-Projekten wird GitLab angesehen.

http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Free-Software-Foundation-GitHub-und-SourceForge-kommen-bei-Hosting-Services-Untersuchung-nicht-gut-3186114.html?wt_mc=rss.open.beitrag.atom

#gitlab #savannah

heise online: Free Software Foundation: GitHub und SourceForge kommen bei Hosting-Services-Untersuchung nicht gut weg (Alexander Neumann)

Die beiden arrivierten Code-Repository-Dienste entsprechen offenbar nicht einmal im geringsten Maße den ethischen Kriterien der gemeinnützigen Organisation für freie Software. Besser schneiden hingegen GNU Savannah und GitLab ab.

Die beiden arrivierten Code-Repository-Dienste entsprechen offenbar nicht einmal im geringsten Maße den ethischen Kriterien der gemeinnützigen Organisation für freie Software. Besser schneiden hingegen GNU Savannah und GitLab ab.