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-------- הודעה מועברת --------
<מאת: fr33domlover <[email protected]>
<אל: Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
<נושא: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror
<תאריך: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:11:16 +0300
* There you go, I switched. (I assume you'll make a google-search on
* openmailbox.org now. Have fun.)
*
* Your turn.
>
> On ה', 2013-08-15 at 14:57 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > I can't help but notice that your mail provider, mailoo has a twitter
> > account to promote themselves: https://twitter.com/mailoopointorg
> >
> > You should switch your email provider immediatly, as they are
> > promoting a centralized closed source service in their very frontpage!
> >
> > 2013/8/15 fr33domlover <[email protected]>:
> > > Hey Jasper,
> > >
> > > Excellent questions. I suggest module maintainers decide together on
> > > each module, and other people can't control the mirroring in their name.
> >
> > You can suggest all that you want, but until the day
> >
> > > Or just take the simple solution: Use a free software decentralized git
> > > hosting. For example Gitorious or Gitlab. Gitlab seems to have many cool
> > > features like Github and it's fully free software you can run on your
> > > own server.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have something against using these, instead of the
> > > proprietary centralized alternative GitHub, which happens to be popular?
> > >
> > > It's not my fault people use GitHub. It certainly doesn't mean I get
> > > basic rights taken, just because people don't care enough about the
> > > freedom of the software they use.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I refuse to endorse Github in any way, on the grounds of it being
> > > partially proprietary and centralized. Can anything make more sense than
> > > this? Isn't software freedom our basics?
> > >
> > >
> > > On ה', 2013-08-15 at 08:37 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:34 AM, fr33domlover
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> No problems, GNOME having read-only mirrors can be useful to
> > >> people.
> > >>
> > >> Just make sure there's an easy way to opt out. For example, I
> > >> wouldn't
> > >> want any of my code automatically uploaded to GitHub. I think
> > >> every
> > >> maintainer should have the right to cancel mirroring for their
> > >> module.
> > >>
> > >> If GitHub was free software, decentralized, etc, then I could
> > >> maybe
> > >> agree that mirroring can be activated by default for existing
> > >> and new
> > >> modules. But considering the nature of GitHub, I consider it
> > >> somewhat
> > >> rude to mirror a module without letting a maintainer an option
> > >> to cancel
> > >> it, or make it disabled by default and allowing the maintainer
> > >> to switch
> > >> it on.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Who gets the say? What happens if there's two maintainers to a
> > >> project? What if you've contributed code to GNOME that's under a
> > >> different repository. What happens if someone manually mirrors your
> > >> repository under their own name.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> It's not realistic to have an opt-out button for contributors. It's
> > >> free software, and that doesn't change whether we put it on a
> > >> proprietary platform or not.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On ה', 2013-08-15 at 13:20 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > >> > hi Luis;
> > >> >
> > >> > thanks for answering.
> > >> >
> > >> > On 15 August 2013 13:00, Luis Menina
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > > Le 15/08/2013 12:44, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> > >> > >>> Actually, the fact that we have to ask to opt out is an
> > >> issue in
> > >> > >>> itself. We shouldn't even have to. This should have been
> > >> opt in from
> > >> > >>> the start. People (maintainers and commiters in this
> > >> case) shouldn't
> > >> > >>> have to fight to get back what you have taken away from
> > >> them.
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >> considering that this is a mirroring system of a
> > >> distributed version
> > >> > >> control system, I'm puzzled as to what has been lost. you
> > >> still have
> > >> > >> all your rights to the software you maintain and commit
> > >> to, and you
> > >> > >> still have the right to push your work to more than one
> > >> repository.
> > >> > >> care to elaborate a bit more on this?
> > >> > >
> > >> > > I'm not a maintainer, but it seems to me that a maintainer
> > >> may want as
> > >> > > few entry points for patches as possible, or at least not
> > >> need to poll
> > >> > > to find patches. We already have bugzilla, or
> > >> git.gnome.org. If extra
> > >> > > clones exist and seem officially endorsed by GNOME, and
> > >> there's no
> > >> > > process to send those patches upstream, this clearly means
> > >> it's up to
> > >> > > the maintainer to poll for patches on these extra clones.
> > >> >
> > >> > as I said the last time the idea of a github clone was being
> > >> floated
> > >> > around, I don't want to look in multiple places for patches.
> > >> nor I
> > >> > want to get pull requests from mirrors I don't maintain
> > >> directly — and
> > >> > even then, I basically always say that if a patch is not on
> > >> Bugzilla,
> > >> > then it doesn't exist.
> > >> >
> > >> > the work that Alberto did, though, seem to be clear that: a)
> > >> the
> > >> > canonical place for submitting patches is Bugzilla, and b)
> > >> the GitHub
> > >> > clones are for mirroring only, so that people can easily
> > >> create a
> > >> > public fork on their own GitHub account when they wish to
> > >> hack on
> > >> > something. it is, essentially, a read-only mirror. as a
> > >> maintainer, I
> > >> > don't have a problem with exposing my code on multiple
> > >> venues — that's
> > >> > what I do already every day.
> > >> >
> > >> > ciao,
> > >> > Emmanuele.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >> --
> > >> Jasper
> > >>
> > >
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