Many large projects use Gitorious successfully. I have just small repos there, so I don't feel any serious weaknesses, but some large projects (you can find a list on their website) do use it. I'm sure Gnome users can do it too.
On ה', 2013-08-15 at 09:47 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:40 AM, fr33domlover > <[email protected]> wrote: > On ה', 2013-08-15 at 14:29 +0000, Marco Scannadinari wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 16:13 +0300, fr33domlover wrote: > > > Allow me to clarify: > > > > > > You're free to use github mirrors, it's your right to do > so. But I have > > > the right not to cooperate with this. All Gnome > maintainers have this > > > right. > > > > > > If you're going to enable those github mirrors, make sure > any maintainer > > > can easily turn off mirroring for their module. > > > > why? > > > Because Github is centralized, and partially proprietary. And > it has > great alternatives like Gitorious and Gitlab, which don't > suffer from > these problems. > > > > Having used both of these tools, they aren't anywhere near what GitHub > does. > > Gitorious is slow, hard to navigate, and tends to spit out error > messages when trying to load files from anything other than master. > It's also impossible to view any binary file (icons, images) without > downloading. > > > GitLab is an attempt at emulating GitHub, but it feels like the > standard "open-source clone of closed software" in that it's years > behind and doesn't really have its own design or identity. > > > > > > By releasing your code under a Free license such as the GPL, > you are > > allowing others to take your code, and essentially, do what > they want > > with it. Free licenses by design are made to allow this, and > if your app > > is part of the Gnome project, then Gnome are free to "do > what they want > > with it", in this case, to create a *read-only* mirror on > GitHub in the > > intrest of convenience. > > > Software freedom is more important for me than convenience. If > you're > interested in convenience you can use MS Windows, Dropbox, > Facebook, > Skype and Github. Stop developing Gnome and just watch TV all > day. > That's convenience. > > I feel that some decisions taken in the name of Gnome don't > consider > software freedom. That's not fair, especially because many > people here > are volunteers, and some of them volunteer in the name of > software > freedom, not convenience or profit. > > > > I'm curious how this is different than somebody taking your code > repository and putting a personal fork of it on GitHub. Is it because > GNOME's mirrors are called "official", and that you feel that having a > presence on any proprietary infrastructure feels detrimental to > GNOME's philosophy and mission? > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > > > -- > Jasper > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
