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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Microsoft buys GitHub
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 19:36:53
Message-Id: 23317.38094.568548.20197@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Microsoft buys GitHub by Matthew Thode
1 >>>>> On Mon, 4 Jun 2018, Matthew Thode wrote:
2
3 > On 18-06-04 12:37:52, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
4 >> When github was first introduced to Gentoo, Michal and I argued
5 >> quite a bit about it. My concern was data lock in. There is now
6 >> a lot of Gentoo history in our repos and their issue tracker on
7 >> github. I don't hate Microsoft, but I don't trust them. I think
8 >> we should think of some way to be able to "bring that data home"
9 >> in case the TOS does change drastically --- not just the git repos,
10 >> but the bug reports too. I'm not sure how to do the latter.
11
12 > GDPR helps us here I think.
13
14 Are you thinking of Article 20 (data portability)? IIUC it applies
15 only to personal data, and I doubt that bug reports would qualify
16 as that.
17
18 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-project] Microsoft buys GitHub Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>