# Transition to GitHub

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/transition-to-github/10358>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/transition-to-github/10358 "2020-02-20T00:01:02Z")\
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> I just pulled up Slicer github to look for something, and noticed all the stars were gone… ouch

Thanks for the feedback.

This was discussed and we proceeded knowingly. I am confident we will recover our stars 🙂

There were two main motivations for creating a new repo: (1) filtering history removing large data, the repo is now 5 times smaller, (2) migrating issues.

We will discuss this during the community meeting on Tuesday morning.

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