"Gentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the Linux distribution fulfills a pledge to ditch the code shack due to "continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories." The decision was made public last month, when Gentoo confirmed it intended to migrate repository mirrors and pull request contributions to the new home. On February 16, the organization revealed it now had a presence on Codeberg, where contributions could be submitted."
"It is increasingly difficult to avoid Copilot on GitHub, and the impact of AI on open source is seen more as a negative than a positive, as repositories risk being filled with AI slop. Last week, GitHub added a setting to turn off pull requests entirely, meaning nobody can see existing pull requests or open new ones. The new setting arrived after the Microsoft-owned biz kicked off a discussion earlier this year over "the increasing volume of low-quality contributions that is creating significant operational challenges for maintainers.""
"In 2024, Gentoo published a policy stating, "It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any content that has been created with the assistance of Natural Language Processing artificial intelligence tools." The ban was made on the grounds of copyright, quality, and ethical concerns. So, no Copilot assistance or reviews, please. And then there's the whole issue of training coding assistants using the content of repositories."
Gentoo is migrating its repositories from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg and accepting contributions on Codeberg as part of the migration. The move responds to continuous attempts to push Copilot usage and to growing difficulty avoiding Copilot on GitHub. GitHub introduced a setting that can disable pull requests after citing an increase in low-quality contributions that strain maintainers. Gentoo implemented a 2024 policy banning contributions created with Natural Language Processing AI tools on grounds of copyright, quality, and ethics. The policy also addresses concerns about training AI coding assistants on repository content. Repository mirrors and pull request workflows will be migrated over time.
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