Any plans for a GitHub fallback? Concern about Microsoft dependence and project resilience

Bazzite
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Hey Bazzite team,

Thanks for all the great work you’re doing!

I wanted to ask something important:
Are there any plans to move away from GitHub (and GitHub Actions) in the future? Right now, Bazzite seems tightly coupled to GitHub infrastructure, which is owned by Microsoft.

The concern is that if GitHub or Microsoft changes something critical—policies, APIs, or even cuts off access—it could potentially break Bazzite entirely. That’s a big single point of failure.

Is there at least some kind of fallback mechanism or plan in place to ensure updates and builds can continue if GitHub suddenly becomes unavailable or hostile to open source workflows?

Really curious to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks again for pushing the project forward.

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No, of course not. GitHub has been very good to us.

All of this stuff is standardized, anyone can run this wherever they want, we choose to be on GitHub.

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Theoretically, it should just be the .github workflow files that would need tweaking, right? The Containerfile and everything else should be already standardized?

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pretty much. There is some github related items inside some of our build logic, but pretty simple to change.

However, Github has been quite good to us and most of these changes were made to make local building easier. Which just has the side benefit of making it easier to build on another platform

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And the justfiles/devcontainers run locally and anywhere. The ISO generating action uses rclone on purpose so that part’s not tied to anything, though we use and love Cloudflare.

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You are so sure about not leaving Github, but have you ever thought about why Microsoft acquired it, what are their real plans with it? They never do something if they don’t make profit with it. How do they make profit from it now?

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They have a lot of enterprise plans for corps using it.

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We pay them in exchange for goods and services. :smiley:

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My employer uses them. They are making quite a bit of money off of them.

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I did not know that. Thank you for this info.

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@JandeMus I just retired from a company who does $10M’s with MS each year, and Oracle, and RedHat, and IBM, and AWS, and SAP - the list goes on.

That is indeed the reason. They are making a lot of money from their GitHub purchase.

I, for one, am not worried about it at all.

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