On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:39 AM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:

> Julien Rioux <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > The current hosting situation isn't bad that we need to take such
> > important actions with savannah. With github, we already have hosting,
> > a platform for contribution and review comments, and relatively strong
> > visibility, at no effort from us.
>
> Who is "we"?  I for one am not going to agree to GitHub's quite invasive
> usage conditions for their "free" offerings which include killing a
> project for any reason they want to at any point of time, explicitly
> citing bandwidth usage as one such reason.
>
>
You're right, for contributing a patch and/or commenting through github,
it's "we" as in "those that are bold enough to sign up on github". "We"
also happily send patches or comments on the mailing list as usual; "we" as
in "those that are bold enough to post on public mailing lists". It's still
an added value that a non-empty set of people are happy with.


> Now the situation is in theory not all that different with Savannah.
> Except that Savannah does not serve stockholders but its users and Free
> Software.  When they find that there is a technical problem in
> connection with serving a project, "pull the plug" will be way lower in
> the list of remedies than with GitHub.
>
>
Fortunately with git repos even if the hosting goes, the project's source
code is still in hand,

Regards,
Julien
_______________________________________________
lilypond-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Reply via email to