The world woke up this morning with shocking and exciting news at the same time: GitHub is going to be a Microsoft Business.
There are mixed feelings and GitLab already reported a tremendous increase in its rate of imported projects from GitHub and a record of registration of new accounts all tagged with the #MoveToGitLab Twitter hashtag.

Do not press the panic button

Microsoft had, unfortunately, a historical record of acquisitions that did not go very well. However, that doesn’t mean that GitHub is going to follow the same path.

The question is: what is going to change in the next few weeks? Possibly nothing at all. It is not the time to panic and looking frantically for quick alternatives without really thinking about it. GitHub is there, works and is not going to change in the near term.

Looking for more independence and Openness

One thing that people should do right now, is to say with GitHub and keep their presence as it is today. At the same time, it is clear that economics of the staggering $7.5Bn price tag will start to impact the future decisions and the bias of their services, but nobody knows when and how.

If you are looking for something better, more open and more powerful, you should look at what the best of the OpenSource community proposes on Git and Gerrit Code Review.

OpenSource Code Review, 10 years of independence

Gerrit Code Review was founded the 1st of October 2008 by Google and, since then, has been paramount of Openness and vendor neutrality. There is NO “Community” vs. “Enterprise” editions, no “vendor-locking”, no pull-request filtering for enterprise-class features.
According to the Official Gerrit Analytics page (http://gerrit-analytics.gerritforge.com), over 160+ organizations contributed to Gerrit a stunning 36k commits and the project keeps growing.

Gerrit Code Review project contributions since its inception over 10 years

Try Gerrit Code Review workflow and stay on GitHub

Since 2013, a new service called GerritHub allows OpenSource projects and private companies to leverage Gerrit Code Review workflow and keep their public presence on GitHub.
In addition to a much more powerful and functional workflow, they get for free the ability to be discoverable on GitHub and accept contributions as Pull Requests.

What if I want to leave GitHub anyway?

Should you decide to stay on Gerrit Code Review and leave GitHub in the future, you will always have your repos and reviews on Gerrit and decide to cancel your GitHub subscription at any time, without any consequence to your Community.

So, why not giving Gerrit Code Review a try?
https://review.gerrithub.io/static/intro.html