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OctoGNU timeline

Some of the GNU project is being developed on GitHub, despite the Microsoft acquisition. This is a timeline of relevant events.

NOTE: Data on initial commits may not accurately represent when a project moved to GitHub. GitHub went online in 2008; Perl commits on GitHub date back to 1987. And Perl issues date back to 1999, so... no, first issue opened won't necessarily tell us anything either.

2001

  • March:
    • :* GNU Radio registered as a GNU project

    2004

  • March:
    • :* D front end for GCC (GDC) announced

    2008

  • February:
    • :* GitHub goes online

    2009

  • June:
    • :* Initial GitHub commit for D language

    2015

  • December:
    • :* rms on discuss-gnustep Please, no GitHub https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2015-12/msg00168.html "GitHub does things that are quite bad for free software and is not interested in changing them. If you want to move off Savannah, please pick some other place."

    2016

  • September:
    • :* First issue for GNU Radio on GitHub-- [confirmed: 2016-09/msg00128] note this can be a misleading metric for showing how recently it moved. Mailing list/Official website data is better.

  • December:
    • :* GNU Aspell development moves to GitHub-- Savannah becomes the mirror

    2018

  • June:
    • :* Purchase by Microsoft announced

  • October:
    • :* Microsoft deal closed :* D added to GNU GCC

  • November:
    • :* alsa-lib gets first GitHub issue ("just a test") First real issue opened same month.

  • December:
    • :* First pull request for GNU Radio on GitHub

    2019

  • March:
    • :* rms on emacs-devel We will not move Emacs to Gitlab https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2019-03/msg00594.html "That site has substantial flaws on some ethical points, and we do not endorse it."

  • September:
    • :* Richard Stallman resigns as president and from board of Free Software Foundation :* LLVM commits enabled on GitHub

  • October:
    • :* (sidenote) LLVM move to GitHub begins http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-October/136106.html

  • November:
    • :* Perl quietly moves development to GitHub

    2020

  • August:
    • :* A GitHub Sponsor is elected new President of the FSF http://techrights.org/2020/08/06/fsf-microsoft-github/
  • October
    • :* DMCA takedown of youtube-dl from GitHub (its main repository)




    Related Pages

  • GNU Watch
  • Free Software timeline