Summary
Gentoo is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg to avoid Copilot scanning and AI training on its code.
Codeberg is Forgejo-based and run by a non-profit, offering a privacy-focused host for Gentoo.
Contributions are accepted now on Codeberg; GitHub remains active for a transitional period.
How much would you allow an AI to scan and train off your code? People have differing opinions as to how much they’re okay with an LLM taking a peek at their projects, and I think it’s for the best of all humanity if I keep my own code away from the eyes of an AI.
Regardless, the team over at Gentoo has made a decision: they’d rather not have Copilot on GitHub going through all of their code. As such, they’ve been slowly migrating over to Codeberg, and they’ve just announced that they’re open for submissions over on its new home.
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GitHub is still active…for now
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As spotted by Phoronix, the Gentoo team has created a new blog post. Titled “Gentoo on Codeberg,” it details where the OS is in terms of moving away from GitHub and onto Codeberg:
Gentoo now has a presence on Codeberg, and contributions can be submitted for the Gentoo repository mirror at https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo as an alternative to GitHub. Eventually also other git repositories will become available under the Codeberg Gentoo organization. This is part of the gradual mirror migration away from GitHub, as already mentioned in the 2025 end-of-year review.
Sure enough, if you take a peek at that end-of-year review, you’ll see that the developers weren’t happy with GitHub’s “continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories.” In response, the Gentoo team is moving everything over to Codeberg, which is “based on Forgejo, maintained by a non-profit organization.”
Gentoo isn’t ready to cut the ties with GitHub just yet, as it still has some migration work to be done. However, you can check out the project on the new site and submit code through it, so the team is definitely getting somewhere. Once Gentoo has properly settled into its new home, Gentoo will pull the plug on its GitHub version and go all-in on Codeberg.
It seems that Linux developers worldwide are using the start of the new year to make a fresh slate for themselves. Just the other day, we heard the news that KaOS, which used KDE Plasma for 12 years, is ditching the desktop environment for Niri.