Re: [libreplanet-discuss] support me

[Aaron Wolf]

Oh wow, hmm.

So, for everyone's reference, there's been lots of discussion on this at

http://lists.mediagoblin.org/listinfo/userops

and #userops on freenode

and related to http://freepo.st/ and #freepost on freenode

There's already a site made by some people dedicated 100% to free software. 
It's https://notabug.org/ and it uses Gogs (MIT licensed) with plan to fork to 
AGPL if substantial changes are made or are necessary if Gogs goes in a 
direction we don't like. They started that site coincidentally about a week 
before the Gitorious announcement.

There's also discussion about supporting and hosting Kallithea, which is GPL 
and a Software Freedom Conservancy project.

There may be value in a GitLab fork, but I'm not sure it's the way to go (not 
sure either way). The NotABug folks claim to have considered GitLab and decided 
that it wasn't going to scale as well as Gogs and had too much reference to 
proprietary stuff in the design (I guess they mean third-party login and other 
stuff like that) which would be extra work to deal with.

FWIW, I agree with the view someone else presented that GitLab would itself be 
more acceptable if it had a distinct site / name for the community project vs 
the proprietary enterprise edition. As long as the community edition is 
presented as the lesser version of a single freemium product, we can't really 
endorse it as is, although I will keep saying that their efforts to participate 
and listen to our concerns are very notable and distinct from what we 
experience from most projects that otherwise aren't 100% dedicated free 
software projects. I could imagine GitLab at least recognizing the value of 
maintaining a friendly relationship of sorts to our community and avoiding 
antagonism.

Anyway, GitBull is interesting… I do really want to see collaboration among 
everyone about how to best handle this situation overall.

Cheers,

Aaron
Snowdrift.coop

On 03/11/2015 07:05 AM, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES wrote:
>
> aurelien@hackers.camp (Aurélien DESBRIÈRES) writes:
>
> > Ali Abdul Ghani <blade.vp2020@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> hay
> >> Gitorious is dead - acquired by GitLab
> >> https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/
> >> I wonte make fork from GitLab to making it GPL. v3
> >> Can you support me?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hi Ali, Alimiracle
> >
> > We are bringing your wish to reality.
> >
> > gitbull.org will be this place the server will be available in hours.
> >
> > Make this place free as in freedom.
> >
> > Ping me on IRC for your ssh access code.
> >
> > Regards
>
> Hi LibrePlanet Hackers!
>
> So as promise to Alimiracle, gitbull.org is born.
>
> Alimiracle I have give you the ssh access code as you can see the server
> works now.
>
> For thus who want to join this freedom action you can join us at
> #gitbull on irc freenode.
>
> For thus who want to bring their idea of projects to this action
> ... just ping
>
> Have fun & be free!
>