LibreOffice git repository!

users
#1

Hi!

I wanted to know why LibreOffice doesn't uses GitHub to maintain their
source code. I personally wanted to start contributing but after I saw
it wasn't on GitHub i started to think twice. I believe this is a
serious drawback.

#2

Hello,

We do not rely on Github for independence reasons. However we have our own git repository: http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/source-code/

Github is an online service, not the only place to host git repositories (there are others such as bitbucket, gitlab and of course every git repository on the net).

Best,

Charles.

#3

Others have already mentioned the independence. More elaborate answer:

http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/02/12/the-next-generation-of-code-hosting-platforms

"Free Software needs free tools"

The oldest/largest meta-projects such as Apache or GNU or KDE have
their own infrastructure. The latter uses GitHub just for read-only
mirrors; in order to contribute you use the Free infrastructure.

The code is a bunch of files so these can be copied but I think you
can imagine what happens if one day issue tracking system (such as
GitHub) disappears. There's no copy of the system.

#4

hi.
because i am not a developer or programmer i am not shure about sourcecode.
but for bug reporting i am shure that bugzilla and the current way of
bug reporting in bugzilla is the most excellent, reliable, easy and
accessible way.