On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 18:00 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
2013/8/15 Debarshi Ray <rishi is lostca se>:If you are using GMail (a proprietary web application) for your GNOME work, and then turn around and start objecting to the use of GitHub as another / secondary distribution channel for our code, then, yes, I do find it insincere. Running your own email infrastructure is much much more easier than replicating GitHub with free software. If you don't even care about the easy things, then who are you to hold others to even higher standards?In my opinion, there's a big difference between someone's personal use of a non-free service, and GNOME as an entity (which is supposed to develop and promote free software) promoting a non-free service. This is what the "GNOME's official GitHub mirror" tagline makes it sound like.
Maybe the wording has not been the best and I agree that the tagline might sound like an endorsement, whereas it should not be. Maybe we would need to make it clear. Nevertheless, I believe there is more than this. In the past, somebody made a mirror of GNOME repositories in GitHub. IIRC, way before Alberto mentioned for the first time some months or years ago. The problems with that mirror were: * It was outdated * There were people forking some of those repositories * It was not controlled by us This problem might happen with any mirror, but GitHub is too popular to ignore it. We might want to have control and let people know about it. If there were more mirrors in GitHub, at least the one called GNOME is from GNOME and it is updated. We could add information to let people know that the one there is only a mirror, the fun stuff is happening in gnome.org and educate them about Free Software. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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