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On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:50:27 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Dnia 2015-02-15, o godz. 15:39:58 |
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> Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> napisał(a): |
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> > On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:55:41 +0100 Alexey Lapitsky wrote: |
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[...] |
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> > Is Gentoo willing to say "no" to the software freedom and its own |
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> > social obligations in order to make contributions easier in the |
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> > simplest way possible? |
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> Please explain me, how *exactly* does allowing contributions via |
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> proprietary platform hurt free software? |
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If this platform will become a de-facto common way to made |
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contributions (and this may happen taking into account github's |
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popularity), then platform unavailability or policy changes may |
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hurt the whole development process. |
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Please forgive me for repeating myself once more, but I was |
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directly asked "how", so... Github is not just a git server, this |
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is a platform with numerous instruments and auxiliary data. In case |
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of any negative change all these data (issues, code reviews and so |
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on) will be lost. And there is no clean way to migrate these data |
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to another facilities. Thus we will have a classic web-based |
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lock-in with all lock-in driven consequences. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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