hello - i joined this list today to suggest notabug for review and was pleased to find that it is being considered already even if the first grade as an F this is a good start
i found notabug about two months ago and it struck me right off as laden with potential but not yet viable - i have since gottem familiar with the community which is well aware of notabug's shortcomings - they explained to me that notabug and the freepost blog they operate are non-commercial community-driven projects - the admin is graciously providing the server but does not have the time to properly maintain it alone - they forked the gogs project when it ws very immature and buggy and the upstream has made great advances since but notabug has mot been able to keep up this is very unfortunate because the site is actually getting quite a bit of lip-service around free-software circles because the community surrounding the site is very libre-concious - there would be absolutely no resistance against totally liberating the site if someone took the initiative to make it happen the unique niche i see for notabug is that savanah is currently the only well known code host that is libre-concious but most people find savanah daunting and lacking in asthetics - this is not an important criteria for me but it is for many people - gogs has been styled after github with it's emotes and large shiny buttons screaming "push me, push me" and this is very familiar and appealing factor for many especially the younger ones - yet notabug shares the same philosphy with the FSF, GNU, and savanah such as allowing only the fsf-endored free licences - the few modifications that they have made were mainly concerned with removing the non-free bits such as slack integration so myself having some skills and some time i offered to upgrade the site to the latest upstream in order to fix most of the bugs with the alterior motive of studying the codebase to see what it would take to fully librate it - personally i would like to see notabug be the first code host aside from savanah to earn an A libre-rating (ha get it? libre...rating) and im quite certain i could get the whole community to endorse that goal not to bore with details but i spent the past week boning up on the go language to get prepared and have begun the upgrade - this should be complete in perhaps as soon as a week and i am confident that the site will fare much better upon the next review - after this is done my plan is been to liberate the js and then consult you guys for advice on going the last mile to meet the highest FSF standards - i hope you guys will help me get behind this little pony so there can be at least one other shining example of an "Ethical Repository" to point at (and one that the kids will like too) - you are welcome to monitor my progress here https://notabug.org/bill-auger/gogs/issues - and feel free to join #freepost on freenode to meet the community