For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git.

  • We will continue to use Bugzilla, moz-phab, Phabricator, and Lando
  • Although we’ll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time
  • We’re still working through the planning stages, but we’re expecting at least six months before the migration begins
  • @kameecoding
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    01 year ago

    why didn’t they go to Gitlab though? now they will be hosted by microsoft

    • @merthyr1831
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      61 year ago

      the github repo is a mirror to their internal source hosting. github is just the most accessible to a wide audience