Re: debian github organization ?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Sven Bartscher
<sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de> wrote:
> I don't a reason to have gitlab/github/someother git stuff for debian,
> since we already have alioth.
> Maybe someone can enlighten me.
I'd love to see the Debian infrastructure rely of Free software,
firmware and hardware. However, we are not there yet.
GitHub is widely popular and it has become the go-to place for many
FOSS developers and *newcomers*.
Many people seem to agree that Debian is not as visible and
approachable as other projects.
Unpleasant compromises are inevitable: we are running our
infrastructure on some non-free hardware/firmware,
we host the contrib and non-free archive areas, we fetch and package
tarballs from GitHub.
I would argue that the benefits of being on GitHub in terms of
attracting new users and contributors outweighs the damage[1]
When enabling the non-free archives, users are displayed a warning.
Similarly, any Debian organization/repo on GH could be clearly marked
as a non-official/mirror.
[1] http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
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Federico
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