• Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub Contributors to Gentoo Linux can now submit pull requests throughCodeberginstead ofGitHub. • The repository mirror is already live (only theebuild repo), with more of the project’s Git infrastructure planned to follow alongin the coming months. • The move follows through on plans outlined in Gentoo’s 2025 end-of-year review publishedearlier this year, where the team had made it clear that they would be migrating repository mirrors away from GitHub. • They provided the following rationale for this change: Developers can now submit pull requests through Codeberg using theAGit workflow, which, the project says,eliminates the need to maintain personal forks of the repository. • Gentoo has also publisheddetailed instructionson their wiki for contributors making the switch. • Version control systemstrack changes to code over time, allowing multiple developers to work on the same project without conflicts.

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  • Contributors to Gentoo Linux can now submit pull requests through Codeberg instead of GitHub. The repository mirror is already live (only the ebuild repo), with more of the project’s Git infrastructure planned to follow along in the coming months. The move follows through on plans outlined in Gentoo’s 2025 end-of-year review published earlier this year, where the team had made it clear that they would be migrating repository mirrors away from GitHub. They provided the following rationale for this change: Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gen

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