Yuchen Pei <h...@ypei.me> writes:
Greg Farough <gr...@gnu.org> writes:On Mon, Oct 25 2021, Po Lu <luang...@yahoo.com> wrote:"Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> writes:I was asking for a clarification of GNU project policy. As I mentioned earlier, https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html lists GitHub as unacceptable for hosting of GNU software. That is your answer, what is there else to clarify?Well, why there are 2 GNU projects developed on GitHub.It's strongly discouraged, and we should try to persuade them to do otherwise, but my understanding is that GNU maintainers are allowedto have repositories on GitHub. They already make other, similar decisions on their own about the program they maintain.The actual GNU maintainer policy document is linked below, in whichSavannah is recommended, but not mandated. <https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Hosting>Thanks for the link. I think hosting is not as big a problem asdevelopment, which is mentioned briefly in other messages in this thread. Developers and potential contributors shouldn't be requiredto give up their freedom for development and discussions. The maintainer policy document[1] at<https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Ethical-and-Philosophical-Consideration> also says:Similarly, a GNU package should not require the use of non-free software, including JavaScript, for the coordination of itsdevelopment. For example, please don’t use Transifex for translationof your software because it requires your translators to use non-free, JavaScript-based editing tools. Instead, a service without any ethical concerns should be used, such as The Translation Project(https://translationproject.org).Please don’t host discussions about your package in a service thatrequires nonfree software. For instance, Google+ “communities”require running a nonfree JavaScript program to post a message, so they can’t be used in the Free World. Google Groups has the same problem. To host discussions there would be excluding people wholiveby free software principles.
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