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Firefox moves to GitHub

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I came across this post on HackerNews that discussed that Firefox has moved its repo to GitHub for the first time and it's a huge deal, as a person mentioned on X.

I don't know how this changes things for Firefox, but there must be some reason to it. A person, who works at Mozilla, commented:

The Firefox code has indeed recently moved from having its canonical home on mercurial at hg.mozilla.org to GitHub. This only affects the code; bugzilla is still being used for issue tracking, phabricator for code review and landing, and our taskcluster system for CI.

On the backend, once the migration is complete, Mozilla will spend less time hosting its own VCS infrastructure, which turns out to be a significant challenge at the scale, performance and availability needed for such a large project.

But this comment made the most sense for me:

I think it's actually an understandable strategical move from Mozilla. They might loose some income from Google and probably have to cut the staff. But to keep the development of Firefox running they want to involve more people from the community and GitHub is the tool that brings most visibility on the market right now and is known by many developers. So the hurdle getting involved is much lower.

I think you can dislike the general move to a service like GitHub instead of GitLab (or something else). But I think we all benefit from the fact that Firefox's development continues and that we have a competing engine on the market.

Some folks seemed excited about the migration whereas some are upset about the move to the closed-source platform, GitHub. But if this really makes the browser better, I am excited for the move.

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