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On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:48:22 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> whenever the suggestion comes up to enable contributions to Gentoo via Github |
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> pull requests, we also encounter discussion of the Gentoo Social Contract. |
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> The two points that are seen as conflicting are |
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> * The software running Github is closed source, proprietary. |
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> * The Gentoo Social Contract states [1]: |
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> "Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata unless it |
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> conforms to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public |
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> License, the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike or some other license |
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> approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)." |
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> We need to resolve this discussion somehow, by formulating a clear policy. |
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> Which is why I'm putting it up here for discussion and will ask to add it to |
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> the next council meeting agenda. |
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> Many arguments have already been made. Feel free to summarize your points |
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> again in a reply to this e-mail. |
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The best way will be to setup our own git platform on Gentoo's own |
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hosting. |
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I'm aware of two alternatives: gitlab[1] and gogs[2]. We setup both |
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at our university for local projects. From our experience gogs is |
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50x times faster (in terms of CPU and action execution time) than |
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gitlab. Not so surprising, because gitlab is on ruby interpreters |
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and gogs is on compiled Go code. |
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I fully support Gentoo social contract statement that Gentoo should |
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not depend on non-OSI products, especially on closed proprietary |
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products despite their wide popularity. Another risk that it may go |
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away or change its usage policy to an unacceptable state, or become |
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paid-only and so on at any moment even without warning. |
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And the last but not the least. Github was or is blocked in some |
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countries, e.g. it was recently blocked in Russia; this accident |
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was resolved and Github is available again here, but nobody knows |
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what will become later. By having separate hosting, ip and url from |
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other projects Gentoo will minimize legal risks, at least in some |
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areas. |
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I don't mind if github will be used unofficially, but any Gentoo |
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official project should have base functionality available outside |
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of Github (of course nobody denies to have backups on Github too). |
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[1] https://about.gitlab.com/ |
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[2] http://gogs.io/ |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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