Hi,
As Karl said, this doesn't replace the gNewSense bugtracking system.
Also, anyone is free to use Launchpad if he wishes to do so and there is
nothing gNewSense can do about that. I guess it would even be against
the spirit of gNewSense to restrict someone's freedom to do that. I can
also see the benefit in having those bugs reported, on the one hand to
help the sister project Gobuntu, on the other hand so those bugs will
also be solved upstream which means less work in the future.
However, Launchpad seems to be the only way to report bugs to Ubuntu and
its non-free nature goes against the spirit of gNewSense. In the short
term I see two ways out of this:
1. Do not use LP and ask anyone who does so in the name of gNewSense to
stop doing it. This could frustrate and alienate people and probably
would not work, because gNewSense has no power over them.
2. Let people use LP, but ask them to have some kind of disclaimer text
in the LP group description saying that it is not part of official
gNewSense policy. I don't think anyone would have a problem with this.
In the long term it might be good to keep in touch with the Launchpad
developers to know why it hasn't been opened up yet, when it will be and
what the gNewSense community could do to help speed up that process.
This has been asked in evey Ubuntu Open Week session about LP so far and
the main reason seems to be that they want to keep it centralized. Don't
know if we can do anything about that. They do have the intention to
open it up at some point in the future though.
Regards,
Samgee
Chris Andrew wrote:
Hi, everyone.
I've been following this thread. Instead of arguing the pro's and
con's of non-free Launchpad, how can we achieve the same objective
(define this), without compromising our stance on freedom?
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Chris.
On 27/03/2008, Yavor Doganov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Karl Goetz wrote:
>
> In this instance, we would be cutting off our nose to spite our face.
> Which helps us not at all.
Maybe, but it is not worth the degradation of freedom for the sake of
the "advance" of the project. The mere existence of the project is
solely related to freedom, so you'll find it hard to convince true
believers that using a non-free tool is beneficial for the goal
gNewSense has declared to pursue.
Personally, I turn my face with disgust on acts like these and they
irrevocably shake my confidence in the project.
Remember BitKeeper, the situation is not radically different.
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