Re: Move from gitlab.com?

[Nala Ginrut]

Hi Akib and all!
Yes, GitLab is not the best choice, but please don't forget the official
main repo is on savannah:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/artanis.git

And the official workflow is based on GNU mailing-list, say, here.

The GitLab is convenient for new-school folks, so I choose GitLab as the
mirror, but folks may also send patch via GitLab.

I have to clarify one critical reason why I moved from GitHub to GitLab, it's
because I don't trust Microsoft's perspective on FOSS.

Of course, sometimes I have to use GitHub for the cooperations out of GNU. 
That's
fine for me.

So even GitLab is also a weak choice for software freedom, IMHO, it's better
than GitHub. After all, we have savannah as the main repo to make sure
people can always get the source code. I don't think it'll be good to
move here and there, since we need a stable platform to organize the community.

So here's my conclusion: we're not going anywhere.

Please feel free to make mirror on other platform you trust. This is a
good way to enhance the freedom. But please don't open issues or patches
on these platforms.

If you encounter something unfair on GitLab, please always find this
mailing-list, we're here to help.


Best regards.

Akib Azmain Turja writes:

> I'm happy to see the following in the README.md:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> According to [GNU Ethical Repository Criteria
> Evaluations](https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html).
> GNU Artanis as GNU official project is not proper to be maintained on
> GitHub.
>
> So I **will not** do maintenance work for GNU Artanis on github to show
> my position on free software.
>
> That means I **will not** response to issues or pull requests on GitHub.
> Until GitHub show some respect to freedom of users on these issues:
>
> * No other nonfree software is required to use the site (thus, no
> Flash).
>
> * Does not discriminate against classes of users, or against any
> country.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But gitlab.com (only this instance) also has some similar issue, and
> according to GNU Ethical Repository Criteria Evaluations, it gets grade
> F, not suitable for GNU software.
>
> There are many other forge instances, notably sr.ht and notabug.org,
> which get B and C grade respectively.  There is also codeberg.org, an
> instance of Gitea (working on federation), which gets C grade according
> to https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Codeberg.


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