[snip]
>So how do we explicitly get that consensus? Do we need a concrete
>proposal to "vote" or otherwise express opinion on? Does anyone
>strongly object if I try to write that?
I think the discussion should be more along the lines of:
1) Leave gEDA (that includes gaf, pcb, and gerbv) split between two
private servers (seul.org and gpleda.org both privately funded).
-or-
2) Move _all_ the projects project data elsewhere, like to SF or
Launchpad.
On a related note, there have been grumblings about the way things
currently are, as evident by a fairly recent irc conversation (names
removed and key statements cherry-picked):
"ATM Ales is a single point of failure"
"I'm concerned actually about Ales being a single point failure"
"problem with for-pay servers is users are motivated, they help
pay for a few months, then no more"
"so any decisions that affect $$ need to account for probably
Ales paying for it out of pocket"
I have absolutely no issues with removing me as a "single point of
failure", however, if you people want to do it then put up the *cash*,
time, and get some buy-in from all people doing the development work.
For the record: getting gaf, pcb, and gerbv all in once place was a
ton of work and was no picnic. I would be happy to provide a tarball
of everything (it'll be big) and I don't want duplication of data, so
if things are migrated away from gpleda.org, I would be happy to turn
those services off.
If you can't tell, I don't see the value of moving just the trackers
from one SF-like service to another, just because we don't like the
user interface. However, moving all the data to SF or Launchpad, that
has my vote.
And all the data includes:
* webpage (though I own the domains for a few more years)
* released files (current and historical)
* git repositories
* mailing lists
* mailing list archives (also huge)
* bug trackers
* wiki
-Ales
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