On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:46:18 +0200, Toon Claes wrote:
> Let me first say, I am not against making Magit a GNU project, in
> contrary. But I think Magit would never have gotten such a vibrant
> community if the project was hosted on Savannah, rather than on GitHub.
>
> Having a more /modern development platform/, like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/...,
> makes it much easier for new contributors to participate on a project.

You're free to use GitLab for GNU projects:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html

> I know this discussion has been raised several times before, but I
> really would like to see GNU/FSF to adopt a more modern platform.

Yes, a GNU GitLab instance (for example) would be good to have.

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