Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-09-14 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. One of the bad things about Github is that a founder gives speeches that insult the

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-09-13 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, August 15, 2013 5:03 am, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I've been working with the GitHub guys and Andrea Veri on setting up a mirror for all GNOME repos in GitHub. As you can see in the minutes published today, the board discussed the thread about GitHub and the various concerns on this issue.

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-20 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-08-19 17:41, Olav Vitters a écrit : He's totally free to go personal with someone via private email. It is offtopic for this list, totally inappropriate and socially unacceptable. Suggest to read the descriptions for these mailing lists. Note that mailman is free software and anyone

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. We

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:03 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I've been working with the GitHub guys and Andrea Veri on setting up a mirror for all GNOME repos in GitHub. This is great news! It should make it easier for people to keep independent/experimental branches of Gnome modules and have a

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 19:09 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: Hosting services in general are not SaaSS. Maybe some specific thing about GitHub is SaaSS; if so, can you explain the details? Please take discussions of GitHub off-list. The Foundation Board will discuss the GNOME mirror during its

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
I actually have a question. If I'm a module maintainer, is it possible for me to receive the standard GitHub emails whenever somebody opens a pull request on one of my repos? I'm OK with tracking pull requests and accepting for my module. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Andrea Veri

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno ven, 16/08/2013 alle 12.55 -0400, Richard Stallman ha scritto: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Until

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
This might be harmless if there was a way to disable pull requests, but if we mirror repos on GitHub we have a responsibility to monitor for and accept pull requests, otherwise potential contributors who are unfamiliar with our development flow will be discouraged when their pull requests sit

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Philip Van Hoof
Richard Stallman wrote on 17/08/2013 1:10: I don't think it'll make much of a difference as neither technical nor philosophical arguments are often part of, not what gets discussed at GNOME but, what gets decided. To make sure that it's noted I do agree with Richard on this: But I don't

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:03 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: There's no intention to support pull requests or to depend in any way in this service, this is just a nice-to-have to serve the GitHub's community and user base. My concern is that with no way to disable pull requests, potential

Passive resistance [was: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror]

2013-08-19 Thread Matteo Settenvini
Il giorno gio, 15/08/2013 alle 12.07 +0200, Alexandre Franke ha scritto: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: I really don't care much about my code being mirrored anywhere. At least gitorious would be ethically acceptable, so it wouldn't bother me, but I

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
The results GitHub brings are not relevant in this case. TONS of useful software have been created - and are still being created - using Microsoft tools, and many other proprietary tools. So what? I think it's somewhat unfair to make the GitHub mirroring automatic and let people send their

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
Hello, GitHub indeed offers many features that Gnome's git web interface doesn't. But may I ask why you chose GitHub and not some other service? I'll tell you why it's important in my humble opinion, to ask this question. As you many have heard already, most Git hosting websites use proprietary

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread fr33domlover
On ו', 2013-08-16 at 04:13 -0300, Bastien Nocera wrote: On 15 Aug 2013, at 22:20, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic,

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-08-18 23:13, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 01:14:47PM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote: Since when did you become a Dr without having an actual doctorate- honorary ones don't mean shit? Since when is such behaviour socially acceptable? Anyway, you're banned from both

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: Le 2013-08-18 23:13, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 01:14:47PM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote: Since when did you become a Dr without having an actual doctorate- honorary ones don't mean shit? Since when is such

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-18 Thread James
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 13:14 -0400, Super Bisquit wrote: Since when did you become a Dr without having an actual doctorate- honorary ones don't mean shit? Other Doctors that may or may not be real Doctor's include: Dr. Dre, Doctor Who, and Dr. Seuss... Personally I think Dr. Stallman qualifies at

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-18 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Since when did you become a Dr without having an actual doctorate- honorary

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-18 Thread Allan Day
Super Bisquit superbisq...@gmail.com wrote: Since when did you become a Dr without having an actual doctorate- honorary ones don't mean shit? Derogatory personal comments have no place on this list. Please refrain from making posts like this again. Our moderators have been notified about this,

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-18 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 01:14:47PM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote: Since when did you become a Dr without having an actual doctorate- honorary ones don't mean shit? Since when is such behaviour socially acceptable? Anyway, you're banned from both lists, bye. -- Regards, Olav

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-17 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. I found it interesting to think about it this way! We always think about

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-17 Thread ബാലശങ്കർ സി
2013/8/17 Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org It's true that most commercial software is proprietary, and we're against it -- but not directly because it's commercial. Meanwhile, some commercial programs are free, and we are grateful for their development. Its sad that there is a huge number out

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-17 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Its sad that there is a huge number out there who think Free Software means

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
On 15 Aug 2013, at 22:20, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Is it advisable

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-16 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 21:20 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Is it advisable to use

Re: Passive resistance [was: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror]

2013-08-16 Thread Frederic Peters
Jasper St. Pierre wrote: If you're not happy with that, we can certainly bring it up to the board and talk about it, but from how I see things, I don't think we'll remove GNOME Online Accounts integration or stop our Twitter marketing campaigns. So, I'm saying that if you're not happy with

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-16 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. When you say that GitHub is nonfree, what do you mean by that? We do not

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-16 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. I believe the mentioned article answers your question: GitHub is essentially

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-16 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. To Richard: I would like a clarification in this respect. If I use a non-free

Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hello everyone, I've been working with the GitHub guys and Andrea Veri on setting up a mirror for all GNOME repos in GitHub. I have more detailes about this in a blog post[0] I just published. The aim of this mirror is just to serve as a starting point for people wanting to have a public branch

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2013/8/15 Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org: Why did I choose github? Because that's where everybody is these days. Because we have nothing to lose by mirroring our repos there and we have a lot to gain. Promoting the non-free github while a free alternative exists (gitorious) is a big loss in my

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:26 AM, אנטולי קרסנר fr33domlo...@mailoo.org wrote: Hello, Hi, Examples: […] SourceForge SourceForge is actually free software now. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Apache_relicense (Certainly the popularity of GitHub is not the reason you chose it I

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: Why did I choose github? Because that's where everybody is these days. Because we have nothing to lose by mirroring our repos there and we have a lot to gain. You're entitled to your opinion but you must be aware that some

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hello Christophe, A script to mirror in gitorious is more than welcome. Also, a free alternative is a bit of a red herring, there is a technical alternative, yes, but there is no alternative to the user base inside github. Also, if you think hordes of people will stop using github just because

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread James
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:42 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: Why did I choose github? Because that's where everybody is these days. Because we have nothing to lose by mirroring our repos there and we have a lot to gain.

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hello Alexandre, 2013/8/15 Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com: (Certainly the popularity of GitHub is not the reason you chose it I guess, just like the popularity of Windows doesn't make us focus on Windows support, and the popularity of Skype doesn't make us focus on As you can

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
A hook for github is more than welcome from my POV. 2013/8/15 James purplei...@gmail.com: On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:42 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: Why did I choose github? Because that's where everybody is these days.

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread James
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:50 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: A hook for github is more than welcome from my POV. I'm guessing you mean gitorious... Are you able to point us to the github scripts and hooks that were already written so that someone might be able to port those or patch those instead of

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:34 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I don't think you've read my blog post and my email carefully, we are not replacing anything with anything. git.gnome.org is still based on cgit, people will still be required to use bugzilla to send their patches, we will not rely on

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; From the associated blog post: As per people concerned about the fact that github is a closed source service, I have a few things to highlight: this is just a mirror, we won't rely on them for any of our activities. Also, GitHub has contributed a great deal of their infrastructure code to

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: We should pick our fights, on the other hand, GitHub has released more open source code and tools than the gitorious community. We accept money from Google for the GSoC's every year and I see no complaints. Everything is a

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:03 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hello everyone, I've been working with the GitHub guys and Andrea Veri on setting up a mirror for all GNOME repos in GitHub. Out of curiosity and given the controversy started by your choice of github -- what makes this mirror official?

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2013/8/15 Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: We should pick our fights, on the other hand, GitHub has released more open source code and tools than the gitorious community. We accept money from Google for the

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: Anyway this is really not what was the most important point to me in my previous email and you didn't answer the question I really cared about, so I'm asking again: is there a way for maintainers to opt out of the github

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hello Christian, 2013/8/15 Christian Persch c...@gnome.org: Hi; From the associated blog post: As per people concerned about the fact that github is a closed source service, I have a few things to highlight: this is just a mirror, we won't rely on them for any of our activities. Also,

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 2013-08-15 11:46, Christian Persch wrote: Hi; From the associated blog post: As per people concerned about the fact that github is a closed source service, I have a few things to highlight: this is just a mirror, we won't rely on them for any of our activities. Also, GitHub has contributed

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: Speaking as someone who has a Gitorious account and not a GitHub one, what will you gain by opting out? It won't stop someone from cloning your code on GitHub. This way you atleast have a canonical tree on GitHub where

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Christophe; On 15 August 2013 10:38, Christophe Fergeau t...@gnome.org wrote: 2013/8/15 Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org: Why did I choose github? Because that's where everybody is these days. Because we have nothing to lose by mirroring our repos there and we have a lot to gain. Promoting

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 15 August 2013 11:38, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: Speaking as someone who has a Gitorious account and not a GitHub one, what will you gain by opting out? It won't stop someone from cloning

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Claudio Saavedra
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:15 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: 2013/8/15 Claudio Saavedra csaave...@gnome.org: On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:03 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hello everyone, I've been working with the GitHub guys and Andrea Veri on setting up a mirror for all GNOME repos in GitHub.

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
I'm open to uncall it official, that won't make it any less official though :-) 2013/8/15 Claudio Saavedra csaave...@gnome.org: On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:15 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: 2013/8/15 Claudio Saavedra csaave...@gnome.org: On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:03 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hello

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Am Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:24:21 +0200 schrieb Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org: 2013/8/15 Christian Persch c...@gnome.org: Also, I'd like to question when and how it was decided to give this github mirror 'official' status? The fact that the hook is installed in the repos makes it official.

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Andrea Veri
I'm working on a wiki page with all the needed details, it'll be up for the end of the day :-) cheers, 2013/8/15 Gil Forcada Codinachs gforc...@gnome.org First of all, thanks for this! Couple of notes though: - I haven't seen the link to the script that does the mirroring I guess that is

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that making it easy for them to take the code and copy it was the entire point of using a distributed version control system. actually, I was pretty sure that this was the whole point of having free access to

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Hello Christian, 2013/8/15 Christian Persch c...@gnome.org: That's a distinction without difference. The point remains that the GNOME trademark is used to promote a proprietary web service. Coupled with the word Official this even constitutes a strong endorsement. It's the other way around,

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Andrea Veri
Pressed sent too early. [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/GitHub 2013/8/15 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org 2013/8/15 Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:26 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: Hello, GitHub indeed offers many features that Gnome's git web interface

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Andrea Veri
2013/8/15 Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:26 +0300, אנטולי קרסנר wrote: Hello, GitHub indeed offers many features that Gnome's git web interface doesn't. Yes, but we've disabled them all. I really fail to see the point of GitHub without its killer

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Frederic Peters
Alberto Ruiz wrote: Sure, but if you want to play the integrity game, how come you are not questioning our usage of Google services all across our infrastructure? The usage of twitter and Google+ as outreach tools? I am sure many people could discuss this usage, and have, at least I know I

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 13-08-15 07:55 AM, Alexandre Franke wrote: Ok, I probably misphrased that since English is not my native language. What I meant is that my code being mirrored is not something I want to push for, it's not something I consider as needed. That was an explanation for the fact that I won't be

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. We should pick our fights, on the other hand, GitHub has released more open

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. By using gibhub for our 'official' git mirror, we're still promoting the use

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. We're aware of the distinction between open source software and free/libre

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Richard Stallman
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Is it advisable to use nonfree GitHub as a secondary mirror for GNOME's free