Since last year, Github has no longer been "neutral". Last year's "Sanctioned, Github", Adobe also began to block a large number of accounts and services! 》Hot article, I don’t know how many people still remember? Recently, Github has begun to suspend some open source projects.
On March 20, a netizen revealed that a front-end project named "Aurelia" was blocked by GitHub. Aurelia is a JavaScript framework developed by Microsoft. It has been open source for 5 years and managed by a US company.
The netizen on the picture is the main person in charge of the Aurelia project and the chief UX engineer of Microsoft. According to the information he revealed, before the Aurelia website was shut down, he did not receive any formal notice!
As the event fermented, this matter made the headlines of HackerNews. Later, Github replied to the incident, and the reply to Aurelia was that the reason for the ban was that the project had two external contributors from Iran.
Does this mean that there will be PRs submitted by netizens in certain areas in the future, and we cannot merge them to the master? Are all projects that have merged with PR all "processed"?
As netizens continue to complain, the Aurelia project has returned to normal now!
In addition, the Github of a Russian brother named Nikolay has recently been unavailable!
Last year, Github also closed the DeepNude project.
The above signs surface that programmers’ open source projects need a “backup”. If you abandon Github now, which platform would you prefer? Welcome to leave a message to talk about your thoughts!