I know that Mark Shuttleworth replied to one of my posts and said that he was working on opening-up Launchpad (I think that is what he meant).
Is there any reason why we can't highlight bugs beyong gNS, using _reportbug_ or _reportbug-ng_ (http://reportbug-ng.alioth.debian.org/)? Cheers, Chris. On 27/03/2008, Sam Geeraerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gNewSense-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > >> > > > > > -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ A great GNU/Linux distro: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
