On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 19:15, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:48:55AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > Some failure of process or communication must have occurred > > somewhere along the lines, because open source should have been the > > first and most important requirement. A proprietary software > > solution is incompatible with the ethos and purpose of the Fedora > > project. I ask CPE to revise its requirements list to include open > > source as the first and most important requirement from the Fedora > > community. If that's incompatible with CentOS's need for merge > > request approvals or whatever else, then we need to accept that > > sharing the same forge is simply not going to work. > > Obviously open source is one of our key foundations. And it is part of who > we are even before those foundations were drafted. Nonetheless, I want to > gently discuss this a little bit. We make an entirely open source and free > software operating system. We support and promote and advocate for open > source and free content. But we can't do everything, and at some point, this > becomes "this is why we can't have nice things". I see that you've made > contributions to other open source projects on GitHub and (hosted) GitLab > this month. Lots of Fedora contributors have and will continue to do so. > Many use that as their main hosting. It's not ideal, but it's not the end of > the world. I don't see Fedora making use of non-open hosted services as the > end of the world either, if that is what is best for us.
That's a false equivalence. Yes, many of us maintain projects on GitHub and/or GitLab due to a variety of reasons, but if any of them die tomorrow, I simply change the "upstream" in my clones and keep going. If Fedora starts using GitLab EE for its dist-git, for example, and GitLab dies tomorrow, then we have a very big problem. Iñaki _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
