Le 06/06/2018 à 23:26, Lex Trotman a écrit : > On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 at 00:16, Matthew Brush <mbr...@codebrainz.ca> wrote: >> On 2018-06-06 01:53 AM, Mark O'Donovan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Regarding https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1870 >>> >>> What are people's thoughts on transitioning away from GitHub? >>> >>> I personally have given GitHub a free pass up to now due to the benefits >>> they were providing to the FOSS community. Following the Microsoft >>> buyout I no longer wish to do so and have moved all repositories I >>> control to GitLab. I am considering closing my GitHub account altogether >>> and will be considerably more likely to contribute to GitLab projects in >>> future. In this i'm sure that I am not alone. >>> >>> I also think that Geany, as a Free and Open Source Software program, >>> should be hosted on a FOSS repository management site. The same open >>> source arguments that we use to promote Geany apply here. >>> >> What changes with the new ownership? As I understand it, the website is >> to remain free for open source projects, is still proprietary software, >> and is still owned by an (albeit massively larger) for-profit corporation. > Agree with Matthew, as far as Geany is concerned, nothing changes, a > company allows us to use their infrastructure, so we do. It will > always be on their terms. Same with Sourceforge same with Gitlab. > > And to add, Gitlab is also a private company, with terms of use that > allow it to unilaterally change the terms of use without notification, > but all users are responsible for monitoring the terms and obeying > them. The only difference is that they provide the software > (including their ability to monitor your use in the binary installs) > for you to set up your own copy, but Geany does not have the > infrastructure or manpower to set up and maintain its own site. Another possibility is to use an instance of gitlab managed by a non profit organization like framagit[1] by a french association framasoft[2] just my 2cents ...
Jérôme [1] https://framagit.org [2] https://framasoft.org/ >>> At the very least I think the gitlab.com/geany project domain should be >>> claimed and mirrored. >>> >> That seems reasonable, as long as the bug tracker and pull requests and >> such can be disabled, and the mirroring can be automated. >> >> by Akronix: >> I can understand to disable the bug tracker, but why do you want to disable >> pull requests? The objective here I think it's to open the door to the >> people who want to contribute in gitlab instead of in github > Agree with Matthew, the main Geany contributors are not finding enough > time to handle just Github, they don't want to be interacting with two > different sites, its likely to be a shambles, thats why it should be a > pure mirror. > > Regards > Lex > >> Regards, >> Matthew Brush >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.geany.org >> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
