We have a temporary glitch with GitHub—probably some contributor was geolocated in a sanctioned region (no details yet). All required documents to unlock the account have been uploaded. Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub - it is just U.S. law. Please be patient. It should be unblocked soon.
@organicmaps The aspect few people seem to mention is that any infrastructure operated in a given country needs to adhere to the law of the land.
What if it was hosted in Europe and someone from Russia or Belarus triggered a similar ban? Is the implementation bad and not transparent? Sure! Is this a problem of US and GitHub specifically? Not at all.
Even when you host your own instance, men in black boots can kick your door and take you away along with your hardware.
@Codeberg@organicmaps Does same sanctions / same conditions from another EU sanction apply to Codeberg? Are you legally required to block contributors from specific regions ?
@organicmaps A lot of people seem to suggest you to move to an instance of Forgejo or even Codeberg. We hope you are not overwhelmed or annoyed by this, and wish you all the best for returning back to work with your project ASAP.
@forgejo@Codeberg are great and should really be considered as an option to move to. Various other projects are doing it these days, for.... reasons like this XD
@richlv@thibaultmol@drdelle@fabiux@forgejo@Codeberg Sure thing, we’ll do a post-mortem. No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.