I have just submitted a pull request in an attempt to make it more factual while staying neutral and informative ;) Here was my take:
README ====== [Debian](http:www.debian.org) packages, maintains and distributes some works that are developed using GitHub. This account was created to facilitate push/pull interactions with the upstream developers of such projects. If you maintain such a package, please feel free to join this group and mirror it here. This account is not intended to serve as the canonical (specified with Vcs-* fields of debian/control) location for corresponding Debian source packages. Most often such repositories should be made available on the Debian project's public forge [Alioth](http:git.debian.org) to guarantee [autonomy](http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement). Tips ---- You might find following tools available from Debian useful for your interaction with github [github-backup](http://guthub.com/joeyh/github-backup) Back up everything GitHub publishes about the repository (forks, issues, comments, wikis, milestones, pull requests) Acknowledgments --------------- Many thanks to the GitHub admins for their prompt action to release the previous (unused) "Debian" account. Disclaimers ----------- This account is not an endorsement of GitHub by Debian. -- Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:11:55 +0900 -- Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:22:03 -0400 On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, June 14, 2012 16:56, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:31:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> I have not added links to their competitors, as I think that it would > >> be bad taste, but yes, I invite every developer to consider Free > >> alternatives such as Gitorious or Branchable. > > To be blunt, I think that our advocacy for software freedoms is more > > important than good taste. > I'm surprised by this dichotomy. It seems perfectly well possible to both > operate in good taste and advocate software freedoms. > > Given how you worded the README (i.e. along > > the lines of "some of the software we work with is already on > > GitHub..."), it would be entirely appropriate to recommend favoring > > Gitorious, Branchable or similar services over GitHub. > I find this indeed not in good taste. We are using their service, for > free. We have many platforms of our own we can use for such advocacy. The > current proposal, that we make it clear that usage does not constitute > endorsement, makes the situation perfectly clear to anyone without using > the free resources we've been given by them to promote their competitors. > Cheers, > Thijs > p.s. I just bought some groceries and the supermarket didn't publish the > source code to their cash register, so I may be biased towards non-free > services. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
