Re: Why does Salsa use reCAPTCHA?
Piper McCorkle <contact@piperswe.me> writes:
> On Friday, 6 September 2024 11.30.44 CDT Ceppo wrote:
>> I feel it's a contradiction that Debian relies on a non-free service, and
>> especially that its forge is dedicated to DFSG-compliant software but forces
>> its users to use a third-party, non-DFSG-compliant service to sign up and
>> to connect to it whenever they load a page.
>
> There are also Free software CAPTCHA solutions available that we may
> be able to use if we want to keep CAPTCHAs on Salsa,
> e.g. [mCaptcha]. I strongly agree that we shouldn't be requiring
> running non-Free software to use any Debian development tools.
>
> [mCaptcha]: https://mcaptcha.org/
Looks like this was extensively discussed in GitLab[1], and as a result
"invisible captcha" was added in GitLab FOSS as an alternative[2]. So
it looks like it is just a matter to change it in Salsa.
[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/46548
[2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/merge_requests/31625#2808b8afa6e824bd6f3a8562c5a993da3653d14b
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Xiyue Deng
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