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Leaving github

(Brief reminder that this represents my own personal opinion, not necessarily that of any employer or larger open source project.) I am planning to move my personal git repositories (including mangos , tcell , govisor , less-fork , etc.)  from GitHub to GitLab.com .  The reasons for this are fairly simple.  They have nothing to do whatsoever with technology.  I love the GitHub platform, and have been a happy user of it for years now. I would dearly love it if I could proceed with GitHub.  Fortunately GitLab seems to have feature parity with GitHub (and a growing user and project base), so I'm not trapped. The reason for leaving GitHub is because of the  hostility  of it's leadership towards certain classes of people makes me feel that I cannot in good conscience continue to support them. In particular, their HR department is engaging in what is nothing less than race  warfare against white people.  (Especially men, but even white women are being discriminated a