Tea to [email protected]English • edit-222 days agoOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.programming.devimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageOrganic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.programming.devTea to [email protected]English • edit-222 days agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•22 days agoThey blocked their account? Can I get more context on this? That’s crazy
minus-squareGammalinkfedilinkEnglish0•22 days ago The reason was not specified in exact details, but it was likely because a contributor was temporarily geolocated in a U.S.-sanctioned region. source
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•21 days agoLet me get this straight. A contributor was only temporarily traveling in a US-sanctioned region, they didn’t attempt to push a commit while they were there, only that they visited the region?
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish0•21 days agoMy guess is that Microsoft decided that Maps.me was actually Russian and this Organic maps is a Russian app. In all fairness it looks like one of the main maintainers could be Russian.
minus-squareinfectoidlinkfedilinkEnglish0•22 days agoMastodon thread about it here: https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-222 days agoAh okay, not quite a satisfactory explanation but it seems like it wasn’t that intentional. Thanks for this
minus-square✺roguetrick✺linkfedilinkEnglish0•21 days ago Rihards Olups @richlv Contributors in sanctioned regions is concerning, though. Would be great to do a transparent post-mortem. Tariq @rzeta0 maybe we should do post-mortems for contributors from the USA? El oh el.
They blocked their account? Can I get more context on this? That’s crazy
source
Let me get this straight. A contributor was only temporarily traveling in a US-sanctioned region, they didn’t attempt to push a commit while they were there, only that they visited the region?
My guess is that Microsoft decided that Maps.me was actually Russian and this Organic maps is a Russian app.
In all fairness it looks like one of the main maintainers could be Russian.
Mastodon thread about it here: https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
Ah okay, not quite a satisfactory explanation but it seems like it wasn’t that intentional. Thanks for this
El oh el.