Gitee, an alternative to GitHub, Specifically made for and somehow accessible only for China, has warned users that it will make all existing repositories private pending a mysterious review of their content.

Gitee is publishing news of its code review requirements on a platform named Zhihu, a Q&A platform similar to Quora.

Recently, The company has published a post on Zhihu that states All newly launched open source warehouses need to be manually reviewed before they can be officially released. The existing warehouses will be made private, then restored to public status after review.

The posts also states that Gitee is adding resources to ensure minimal inconvenience for users and is frustrated by the need to do so. But the post is silent on why Gitee has enforced code reviews.

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