Re: Claiming the "debian" account on GitHub ? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)
I have just submitted a pull request in an attempt to make it more
factual while staying neutral and informative ;) Here was my take:
README
======
[Debian](http:www.debian.org) packages, maintains and distributes some
works that are developed using GitHub. This account was created to
facilitate push/pull interactions with the upstream developers of
such projects. If you maintain such a package, please feel free to
join this group and mirror it here.
This account is not intended to serve as the canonical (specified with
Vcs-* fields of debian/control) location for corresponding Debian
source packages. Most often such repositories should be made
available on the Debian project's public forge
[Alioth](http:git.debian.org) to guarantee
[autonomy](http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement).
Tips
----
You might find following tools available from Debian useful for
your interaction with github
[github-backup](http://guthub.com/joeyh/github-backup)
Back up everything GitHub publishes about the repository
(forks, issues, comments, wikis, milestones, pull requests)
Acknowledgments
---------------
Many thanks to the GitHub admins for their prompt action to release the
previous (unused) "Debian" account.
Disclaimers
-----------
This account is not an endorsement of GitHub by Debian.
-- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:11:55 +0900
-- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:22:03 -0400
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Thu, June 14, 2012 16:56, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:31:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> >> I have not added links to their competitors, as I think that it would
> >> be bad taste, but yes, I invite every developer to consider Free
> >> alternatives such as Gitorious or Branchable.
> > To be blunt, I think that our advocacy for software freedoms is more
> > important than good taste.
> I'm surprised by this dichotomy. It seems perfectly well possible to both
> operate in good taste and advocate software freedoms.
> > Given how you worded the README (i.e. along
> > the lines of "some of the software we work with is already on
> > GitHub..."), it would be entirely appropriate to recommend favoring
> > Gitorious, Branchable or similar services over GitHub.
> I find this indeed not in good taste. We are using their service, for
> free. We have many platforms of our own we can use for such advocacy. The
> current proposal, that we make it clear that usage does not constitute
> endorsement, makes the situation perfectly clear to anyone without using
> the free resources we've been given by them to promote their competitors.
> Cheers,
> Thijs
> p.s. I just bought some groceries and the supermarket didn't publish the
> source code to their cash register, so I may be biased towards non-free
> services.
--
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
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