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On 02/15/15 14:23, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> Note: not replying directly to Ciaran (I fully agree with what you said, C |
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> and Michal) |
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> Question: do any of the scenarios truly threaten Gentoo's existence? |
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> Or is it just that things might be a pain in the butt if Github becomes |
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> unavailable? |
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> Let's say GitHub does change its policies and go full-douchebag -- is it |
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> really the case that Gento would be alone in being screwed, or perhaps the |
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> numerous open source projects on there would result in another something |
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> replacing it? |
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> Would love to see a little less fear around here. |
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Its fine as long as infra is the centre of our operations. Because |
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github is so much better than cvs provided by infra (sorry infra its |
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true) I worry that we'll depend on it too much. To be honest, I love |
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the entire github workflow and would feel much better if we could just |
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own it ourselves. |
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Its unlikely github will go full-douchebag with its TOS. Its more |
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likely they will do what freecode.com (aka freshmeat.com) did. Just |
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close shop on day 0. |
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Finally it depends what you mean by "existance". I've seen companies |
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exert pressures that morph things into what they should not be. A |
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healthy amount of distances here is good. I like our autonomony. |
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> *--seemantk Empathic Design* |
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> On 15 February 2015 at 11:08, Ciaran McCreesh < |
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> ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:39:16 -0500 |
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>> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> On 02/15/15 12:42, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:17:54 -0500 |
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>>>> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>> But the big difference here is that github is a company while infra |
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>>>>> is volunteer work. |
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>>>> And the equipment and hosting is paid for by... |
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>>> You mean the folks like osuosl or other institutions run by |
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>>> grants :P Or is that not the answer you were expecting? |
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>> No, that's exactly what I mean. What if OSUOSL or some other |
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>> institution decides they'll pull funding unless the entire Gentoo |
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>> Gnome team is fired? Or what if the government funding them announces |
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>> that they can't use their money to accept contributions from or |
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>> give benefit to countries in the Axis of Evil? |
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>> The idea that Gentoo is currently immune to these kinds of pressures, |
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>> but suddenly wouldn't be if Github were to be used for hosting, isn't |
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>> really grounded in reality... |
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>> -- |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh |
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