Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-05 Thread xrs
AGPL version > - GitHub belongs to Microsoft. Practically, next to Facebook, Google, > and Twitter, Microsoft is an arm of the NSA by the NSA's PRISM > program. > > > Greetings, > Bastian Schmidt > > > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- > Von: Christian Grothoff > Dat

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-02 Thread hyazinthe
of the NSA by the NSA's PRISM program. Greetings, Bastian Schmidt --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Christian Grothoff Datum: 02.08.2018 19:07:05 An: gnunet-developers@gnu.org Betreff: Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Free

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-02 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
I understand the position of Christian. The README.md is good. Le mer. 1 août 2018 à 16:42, Devan Carpenter a écrit : > Hi everyone - > > As you can see, I've pushed a "markdown" formatted README to the repo. > Please note this is not replacing the plaintext README file. > > My goal has been

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-02 Thread LRN
On 02.08.2018 14:58, Nils Gillmann wrote: > GNOME is still a GNU project, right? Because they have a very active mirror > account: > https://github.com/GNOME > > Just as an example for GNU on Github. Gnome is, in general, lax on the software freedom purity issue. It also recently set up its own

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-02 Thread Devan Carpenter
Schanzenbach, Martin transcribed 2.6K bytes: > > GNOME is actually a very good example for a project that has it's own and > very good contribution guidelines (https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/). > > Btw just look at the FAQs of the Github page: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/GitHub >

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-02 Thread Schanzenbach, Martin
GNOME is actually a very good example for a project that has it's own and very good contribution guidelines (https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/). Btw just look at the FAQs of the Github page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/GitHub Pull requests -> No, Issues -> No What is the point of github

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-02 Thread Nils Gillmann
GNOME is still a GNU project, right? Because they have a very active mirror account: https://github.com/GNOME Just as an example for GNU on Github. ___ GNUnet-developers mailing list GNUnet-developers@gnu.org

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-01 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 08/01/2018 06:23 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote: > Maybe > instead of directly exposing the cgit first, we could have an > intermediate page with details, readme, URLs. That is what we are trying to do with the new HTML/J2 page (draft at stage.gnunet.org): have a more friendly introduction page. We

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-01 Thread Florian Dold
On 08/01/2018 06:23 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote: > I just responded to an off-list message from Christian with an example of > someone I study with. I think they are younger than I am, and have some > but not too much experience with Free Software. Not a complete beginner. > I had to point them to the

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-01 Thread Florian Dold
I agree that we should not encourage or endorse using proprietary code hosting sites such as GitHub. I'm strongly against accepting contributions on GitHub. Even if the Gentoo project decided to do that, it remains a bad idea. The furthest we could go is have a read-only mirror with issues, pull

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-01 Thread Nils Gillmann
Hi Christian and Devan, here's my take on this: Christian Grothoff transcribed 4.8K bytes: > Hi Devan, > > I don't quite see the point of the README.md: the existing README is > perfectly readable for everybody, and having duplicate information is > confusing (now one has to update two

[GNUnet-developers] New README.md and Github

2018-08-01 Thread Devan Carpenter
Hi everyone - As you can see, I've pushed a "markdown" formatted README to the repo. Please note this is not replacing the plaintext README file. My goal has been to make something that newcomers can read and use to get started with GNUnet. Hopefully containing enough in 1 single document to