Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I think your proposed changes are good. Does anyone disagree or have more to add?

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-22 Thread Fischers Fritz
I think it is enough if we would change a few words. I think this addresses the problems I relayed without creating the troubles that others have mentioned. Indicate the web focus by changing the first sentence from > We developed these criteria to judge services for hosting parts of the > GNU

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-22 Thread Fischers Fritz
> > 1. In the above example of GitHub getting grade F for important > > site functionality requiring nonfree JavaScript, for example, > > we could perhaps link to an email list discussion where we refer > > to a particular instance of important functionality breaking > > when

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-19 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > for anything other than the web, > people just would not think to throw

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-18 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > other than savannah, they all have that issue - none have adequate > licensing

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-18 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 1. Clarify that the criteria apply only to source code hosting websites; > >

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread bill-auger
On Thu, 16 May 2024 17:38:47 -0400 Richard wrote: > > 1. Clarify that the criteria apply only to source code hosting websites; > >some projects may want to use non-website source code hosting. > > Are there really projects that want to do this? > Do any projects do this now? it is not

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 1. In the above example of GitHub getting grade F for important > site

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 2. The evaluations are inconsistent among different repositories. > For

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Finally, I remarked during our conversation that it is inconvenient > to have

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 1. Clarify that the criteria apply only to source code hosting websites; >

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-16 Thread Fischers Fritz
Dear Bill, It seems we have already fixed point 1 and are aware of point 2, but it seems also that I was unclear about what I meant by "detail", so I explain. For cases where we already have the detail, the suggestion is to include it in another webpage. > for example: "no non-free JS" - I

Re: Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-14 Thread bill-auger
On Tue, 14 May 2024 21:33:33 + Fischers wrote: > However, he would like to have link to the detailed evaluation > of the relevant criterion. He explains, if I am the one running > the repository, I want instructions of how I can improve the score. there is no elaborate or comprehensive

Feedback on our evaluation criteria

2024-05-14 Thread Fischers Fritz
Dear colleagues, I recently informed an associate of the GNU ethical repository criteria evaluations. I relay his critiques. 1. It is good that we have a summary of the reason for a repository failing to move up the next grade. For example, it is good that we say this: Things that