hi. because i am not a developer or programmer i am not shure about sourcecode. but for bug reporting i am shure that bugzilla and the current way of bug reporting in bugzilla is the most excellent, reliable, easy and accessible way.
On 2/14/16, Jaroslaw Staniek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 February 2016 at 08:29, Mihuleac Sergiu <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I wanted to know why LibreOffice doesn't uses GitHub to maintain their >> source code. I personally wanted to start contributing but after I saw >> it wasn't on GitHub i started to think twice. I believe this is a >> serious drawback. > > Others have already mentioned the independence. More elaborate answer: > > http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/02/12/the-next-generation-of-code-hosting-platforms > > "Free Software needs free tools" > > The oldest/largest meta-projects such as Apache or GNU or KDE have > their own infrastructure. The latter uses GitHub just for read-only > mirrors; in order to contribute you use the Free infrastructure. > > The code is a bunch of files so these can be copied but I think you > can imagine what happens if one day issue tracking system (such as > GitHub) disappears. There's no copy of the system. > > -- > regards, Jaroslaw Staniek > > KDE: > : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators > : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org > Calligra Suite: > : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org > Kexi: > : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi > Qt Certified Specialist: > : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- O people! there has come to you indeed an admonition from your Lord and a healing for what is in the breasts and a guidance and a mercy for the believers. Say: In the grace of Allah and in His mercy-- in that they should rejoice; it is better than that which they gather. holy quran, chapter 10. please visit al-islam.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
