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Re: Debian and GitLab Open Source Partnership



On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 07:59:26PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 06:19:37PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> > Donald Norwood <donald@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > Debian and GitLab have been in discussion regarding an Open Source
> > > Partnership toward which we will jointly produce mutual promotions,
> > > shared stories, and announcements using both organizations press and/or
> > > publicity channels.
>       ...
> > > 
> > 
> > Out of the blue, without any more context and content,
> 
> ???
> 
> "Debian" and "Gitlab" are speaking with each other
> since the very start of "Salsa".
> 
> 
> > I am not sure to be happy with this news.
> 
> To me is the news  that "press" and "marketing" are more involved.
> Because I assume good faith, I allow meself to focus on other stuff
> in (Debian) life.
> 
>  
> > To me, such a partnership is something quite stronger than sponsorship
> > and I'd be a bit ill-at-ease with it being done without the whole Debian
> > Members being consulted.
> 
> Yes, a DD is allowed to represent the project.
> 
>  
> > Last but not least, what kind of data would be shared regarding how we
> > use gitlab in Debian?
> 
> Please give the (humble) Salsa admins time to elaborate.
> I have no insight information about "the data",
> but imagine (dull??) statistics on accounts, active accounts, projects,
> active projects.
> I do trust my fellow Debian Developers to deal wisely with it.
> For (gory??) details I recomment to join the Salsa admin team.

To be honest - and to my suprise - we weren't involved in this
discussions. We don't share any personal data and we won't do that.
We share rough numbers (numbers of projects, users,
groups, storage used), but we also do that regulary in talks (at least
when there were real conferences). 

Alex - Salsa Admim

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