opensource-management-portal

Microsoft's monolithic, opinionated Open Source Management Portal enabling enterprise scale self-service powered by the GitHub API 🏔🧑‍💻🧰

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Microsoft's monolithic, opinionated Open Source Management Portal enabling enterprise scale self-service powered by the GitHub API 🏔🧑‍💻🧰

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Dec 25, 19:00	2021-12-25 19:00:00 UTC	2021-12-25 20:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 25, 20:00	2021-12-25 20:00:00 UTC	2021-12-25 21:00:00 UTC	1	1

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brobinson·Dec 25, 2021

FYI: when linking to a line of code, simply press Y on your keyboard to have Github switch from the _branchname/path/to/file.xyz_ URL to the _sha1/path/to/file.xyz_ URL. The former can result in your URL pointing to unrelated code if lines are added or removed in future commits on the referenced branch. https://github.com/microsoft/opensource-management-portal/bl...

In Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

jeffwilcox·Dec 25, 2021

I lead the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office team. I'm sorry this happened. We have merged a pull request that restored the correct LICENSE file and copyright, and are in touch with the upstream author Leśny Rumcajs who emailed us this morning. We'll look to revert the entire commit that our bot made, too, since it updated the README with a boilerplate getting started guide. The bug was caused by a bot that was designed to commit template files in new repositories. It's code that I wrote to try to prevent other problems we have had with releasing projects in the past. It's not supposed to run on forks. I'm going to make sure that we sit down and audit all of our forked repositories and revert similar changes to any other projects. We have a lot of process around forking, and have had to put controls in place to make sure that people a

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re aware of that guidance. Starting a few years ago, we even "lock" forks to enforce our process. We prefer that people fork projects into their individual GitHub accounts, instead of our organization, to encourage that they participate with the upstream project. In this situation, a team got approval to fork the repository, but hasn't yet gotten started. To be as open as I can, I'd like to point to the bug: - The templates we apply on new repositories live at https://github.com/microsoft/repo-templates - The bug seems to be at this line of the new repository workflow: https://github.com/microsoft/opensource-management-portal/bl... - The system we have in place even tries to educate our engineers with this log message (https://github.com/microsoft/opensource-management-portal/bl...): "this.log.push({ message: `Repository ${subMessage}, template files will not be committed. Please check the LICENSE and other files to understand existing obligations.` });"

In Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]