Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

Hello Christian,


2013/8/15 Christian Persch <chpe 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, GitHub has
> > contributed a great deal of their infrastructure code to the free
> > software commons and they offer a free and very valuable service to
> > anyone who has a free software project. I hope that this alleviates
> > any concerns with regards to this topic.
>
> It doesn't.
>
> By using gibhub for our 'official' git mirror, we're still
> promoting the use of a proprietary web service. I do see the advantage
> of having a web space that allows anyone to put up a clone/fork of one
> of our repos, but why was github chosen instead of a truly Free (AGPL'd)
> web service like gitorious?
>
> 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. It
was my call, not GitHub's. So blame me.

> I see from the board meeting minutes
> of 9.7.2013 that the foundation is sending a trademark complaint letter
> to an academic institution because they're (completely legitimately IMO)
> abbreviating "General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment" with
> "GNOME"; but OTOH we're allowing a proprietary web service to use the
> trademark as the "GNOME Official Github Mirror" ‽

Github is not using the trademark, I am.

> Very concerned,
>         Christian
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Cheers,
Alberto Ruiz