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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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848 points thefilmore | 2 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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mlenz ◴[13 May 25 05:44 UTC] No.43969896[source]▶
Great to see, but I wonder what lead to the decision of creating a new org instead of using github.com/mozilla
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1. moontear ◴[13 May 25 06:03 UTC] No.43969973[source]▶
Without knowing their reason, there are a few things tied to the org where multiple orgs make sense. If you do SSO for example you tie the org to a SSO provider, you can’t tie „just a few users“ to the SSO provider (afaik). The Firefox repo may have totally different authentication / users than the main Mozilla repo.
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2. pornel ◴[13 May 25 09:59 UTC] No.43971300[source]▶
The GitHub SSO is annoying. I can't even view public issues if I'm logged in to GitHub, but haven't recently re-authenticated with SSO.

GitHub also has a lot of features and authentication scopes tied to the whole org, which is pretty risky for an org as large as Mozilla.