Good, fuck Micro$oft. Organic Maps is great and deserves better.
I really hope we get a federated git software, its honestly a lot of bother making a new account on every forejo or gitlab install out there.
Self hosting your code repository in a federated manner seems to defeat the original point. I don’t program or use git though so maybe I’m missing something. Obviously you could use a local version manager but I figured the vulnerabilities in that are what allowed thev centralized model to flourish in the first place. You’d still need to verify your authority to push.
Its stuff like issue trackers and similar that are useful.
They blocked their account? Can I get more context on this? That’s crazy
The reason was not specified in exact details, but it was likely because a contributor was temporarily geolocated in a U.S.-sanctioned region.
Let me get this straight. A contributor was only temporarily traveling in a US-sanctioned region, they didn’t attempt to push a commit while they were there, only that they visited the region?
My guess is that Microsoft decided that Maps.me was actually Russian and this Organic maps is a Russian app.
In all fairness it looks like one of the main maintainers could be Russian.
Mastodon thread about it here: https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
Rihards Olups @richlv
Contributors in sanctioned regions is concerning, though. Would be great to do a transparent post-mortem.
Tariq @rzeta0
maybe we should do post-mortems for contributors from the USA?
El oh el.
Ah okay, not quite a satisfactory explanation but it seems like it wasn’t that intentional. Thanks for this
