Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

Writing this makes me irrationally sad, but Ghostty will be leaving GitHub.

I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years. Over half my life. GitHub is the place that has made me the most happy. I always made time for it.

Lately, I've been very publicly critical of GitHub. Because GitHub is failing me, every single day, and it is personal. For the past month I've kept a journal where I put an "X" next to every date where a GitHub outage has negatively impacted my ability to work. Almost every day has an X. On the day I am writing this post, I've been unable to do any PR review for ~2 hours because there is a GitHub Actions outage. This is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day.

It's not a fun place for me to be anymore. I want to get work done and it doesn't want me to get work done. I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship software. I want it to be better, but I also want to code. And I can't code with GitHub anymore.

I'll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I'm also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS). It'll take us time to remove all of our dependencies on GitHub and we have a plan in place to do it as incrementally as possible. We plan on keeping a read-only mirror available on GitHub at the current URL.

My personal projects and other work will remain on GitHub for now. Ghostty is where I, our maintainers, and our open source community are most impacted so that is the focus of this change. We'll see where it goes after that.