BookStack’s maintainer is planning a staged migration from GitHub to Codeberg, driven by Microsoft’s AI pivot, license disregard, and values misalignment with the self-hosted open source audience.
Key Takeaways
GitHub’s homepage now reads “The AI-powered developer platform” – BookStack’s maintainer sees this as a pivot away from open source hosting toward AI revenue.
GitHub consumed all public code for AI training without opt-in or proven license compliance, which is a direct conflict for a project whose users value software freedom.
Secondary BookStack repos were already migrated to Codeberg by July 2024, with GitHub originals archived and redirected.
GitHub Sponsors is a significant income source for the maintainer, making a full migration financially complex beyond just code and CI.
The migration checklist is unusually thorough: 6 active repos, LFS access, GitHub Actions CI, Crowdin and Codeclimate integrations, Composer package downloads, and community tools like linuxserver that watch GitHub releases.
