On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Julien Michel <julien.mic...@cnes.fr> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I am a fairly new charter member, so maybe the two following comments here > will be irrelevant. > > From my perspective, having Orfeo ToolBox as an incubating project > definitively helped us to move in the right direction. I am not saying that > it would not have occured without OSGeo, but the organization gives the > momentum and defines the standards to reach. As such, it is useful and > somehow efficient. The fact that the process is long is mostly on the > project side in our case. > > I think that the Github move is hazardous. Sure, it is easy, free for > open-source projects, and really really cool. Granted, it helps a lot in > getting fluid contributions to open-source projects. But ... in two years, > they may start shipping sponsors links at the end of the Readme files, and > in a moments notice you have to watch 20 seconds ads before cloning. At > this point, you will want to bail out, only to find out that in fact you > can not, because you can not delete the project anymore, or the issue > tracker database can not be exported ... > > My point is, OSGeo should care about long-term protection of GIS > open-source, and if this goal aligns for now with services that Github > provides, it may no longer be the case in the future .Of course we need to > be on Github: it is a public place to be, like twitter & co. But completely > giving up code hosting and developers exchanges to a private company is the > opposite of what I think the organization should do. > > I know proper hosting services requires time and money, I do not have the > solution to that, but for me OSGeo should provide a sustainable > alternative, up-to-date and tailored for its purpose. > > Completely agree with you, Julien. Avoid openess and advance towards freedom :) The easiest solution is to have our own git repository+dashboard on our own server, like with gitlab: https://about.gitlab.com/
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