New Ardor and Nxt Public Git Repositories

At Jelurida, we strive to reduce and eliminate dependencies on centralized service providers and vendor lock-in. The Git version control software is already decentralized by design, in the sense that each repository instance contains the full project information and commit history. But using a hosting provider such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, while certainly convenient, introduces a dependency on that provider and its terms and conditions that may change at a short notice.

For many years, the public source code of the Ardor and Nxt blockchain platforms was hosted at Bitbucket. Recently, Bitbucket decided to reduce the limits for their free hosting service for public repositories, and to eliminate the file downloads feature for such repositories, which is where historically Ardor and Nxt releases used to be uploaded.

As we do not use Bitbucket for our internal development, it didn't make sense for us to migrate to their paid plans only for the hosting of the publicly available source code. Furthermore, we realized that even if we become a paying customer we would have very little recourse if they decide to change their terms and conditions again in the future. And such risk exists with any centralized hosting provider. So instead of moving to GitHub, GitLab, or similar, we made the decision to run our own Git instance. We are pleased to announce that this migration is now complete, and from now on the source code for our Ardor and Nxt blockchain platforms and related software will be available from https://git.jelurida.com/.