On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:36:42AM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
Meanwhile, my understanding of the identi.ca conversation is this:
Pam Chestek got copyleft-next off GitHub, and nothing there told her GitHub wasn't the canonical location for participation (this should be fixed immediately, IMO. I realize the README says it, but there should be something in big bold letters on GitHub: THIS IS A MIRROR ONLY. DO NOT SUBMIT PULL REQUESTS AND ISSUES HERE. USE MAILING LIST AND GITORIOUS [or whatever solution Fontana decides]. Ideally, the pull request/issue tracker should be turned off.
Pam realized, probably after getting the checkout and seeing the readme, that Gitorious was preferred.
Pam couldn't submit changes via Gitorious (at that point, presumably her tracking branches were all pointed at GitHub, which was probably part of the problem).
Fontana opened an issue on GitHub to collaborate with Pam on the issue she raised.
I theorized that this marked a distributing occurrence, since GitHub instance of copyleft-next seemed to be active again instead of just being a mirror. I complained heavily to Fontana about it, and Fontana countered with what I believed were incorrect analogies to GPLv3 drafting process (i.e., I thought copyleft-next was trying to avoid those, anyway!)
Pam and Fontana, is that summary accurate from your point of view?
Except for the very last part, it's completely inaccurate, but Pam has corrected the error.
I do agree that having to follow GitHub, identi.ca, Gitorious, and this mailing list is annoying.
I agree with that too. For a long time it wasn't a practical problem.
- RF