Gitee, China’s answer to GitHub, to review all code by temporarily closing open-source projects to the public

China’s largest open-source code platform will temporarily close public repositories to review their contents before opening them up again. The policy change, for which no reason was given, comes as Beijing tightens its grip on Internet content. — SCMP

Gitee, China’s answer to open-source platform GitHub, said it will temporarily close public code repositories so they can be reviewed before they are made available to the community again, which comes amid tightening online censorship in the country.

“All new open-source repositories shall be manually reviewed before they are officially made public,” Gitee said in a statement on Zhihu, a Quora-like question-and-answer platform. “For those already opened, we’ll temporarily make them private and make them public again after review.”