On 08/05/2016 03:21 PM, bill wrote: > 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 > > > >
That's great to hear, Bill. Let us know when notabug is ready to be evaluated again. -- Zak Rogoff // Campaigns Manager Free Software Foundation
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