OSMF should host a Forgejo/GitLab instance

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@contrapunctus

Re: mirroring - as mentioned earlier, that’s my nuclear option. If upstream developers aren’t interested in moving off GitHub, I can fork repositories to Codeberg (including issues, PRs, wiki, etc) and contribute there. I doubt they’ll care enough to merge changes, which means we have an easily-prevented split in efforts. The repositories themselves could technically be kept in sync, but the non-Git data will drift (there’s no synchronization mechanism for that, AFAIK).

Folks around here are quite familiar with this scenario, actually:

The Next Generation of OpenStreetMap — in Python!

Greetings, OSM Community Today marks the unveiling of my most ambitious project yet: OpenStreetMap-NG. Nearly a month in the making, I am super excited to bring this to light. This project is a transformative rewrite of the foundational OSM infrastructure1,2 to Python. Its goal? To simplify contributions, secure against vandalism, and modernize the API, all while remaining backwards compatible. (Some) Highlight New Features 100% Python; Move away from the complexities of Ruby, …

Unfortunately, as you might’ve guessed by now: GitHub.