On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 09:23:14AM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
I forgot to mention months ago copyleft.org's Kallithea is now,
so if
you want a repository on
k.copyleft.org for copyleft-next, I can set it
up as the canonical one for
copyleft.org. My only concern about that is
that FSF and Conservancy co-sponsor
copyleft.org, so we should spend
some effort to make it abundantly clear that copyleft-next isn't
endorsed by the sponsors of the main
copyleft.org project.
That seems like a good path forward.
I installed git-hub (
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/git-hub )
today and it seems to have features to access most of GitHub features
using Free Software, so it may be true that the full workflow can be
done without using the proprietary Javascript on their site, but....
I suppose I will spare the speech about repeating the past. Don't you
want a service you can control?
Of course. Though I don't think I would be in full control of a
repository on
k.copyleft.org.
I would say, with the passage of time, the notion that GitHub-centric
hosting would result in a significantly larger community of
contributors seems questionable (though I am sure some of the issues
and comments made through GitHub on copyleft-next would not have
existed had GitHub not been used).
On the other hand, I must admit that my personal views towards GitHub
have become if anything more positive over the years. In particular I've
seen GitHub the company take some reasonable steps to combat certain
forms of abusive conduct and I have found the negative reaction to
such efforts quite disturbing. Some of that reaction has appropriated
the rhetoric of proponents of free network services.
> On a related note, I've been experimenting a bit with
Docker
> containers for certain free software source code hosting systems such
> as Kallithea, with some hopeful results.
That solution would work too, no?
Yes, at least in theory.
Richard