On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: >> Speaking of another kind of dogmatism, I'd encourage you to at least >> mirror your repository on gitorious, which is an open service, unlike >> github. > > I'm COMPLETELY convinced! I have been really wary of the idea of GitHub all > along. We were trying to figure out the best way to do this and didn't want > to reinvent the wheel. We want a ticket system and easy ability to do git > stuff. I didn't know that gitorious was Free. I was trusting David's > recommendation that GitHub was the best choice. > > Is mirroring easy enough? Is it worth still using GitHub at all? Is using > GitHub kind of like having FLOSS ported to Windows (i.e. practical because > that's where people are already, although we'd like them to move to fully > Free platforms)? Maybe we should only use Gitorius, at least for now?
Mirroring is easy; one writeup https://exyr.org/2011/git-mirrors/ Using gitorious as primary would win the hearts of the really committed. Mirroring on github would then be just a way to attract attention, which some people think github is good for; this may even be true for some projects. But if you're not ready for lots of attention, this may not even be a plus. > My ideal goal is that we are in every way as Open as possible. I don't want > to rely on any proprietary tools. I even am insisting that the illustrations > for Snowdrift are done with FLOSS. I don't think requiring this is > practical, but I'd like to encourage and emphasize projects that release > "source" in Open formats (i.e. I don't like that Nina Paley, as superb as > her support for Freedom is, uses Flash for her animations). Right. > Thanks so much for the advice! > > Respectfully, > Aaron Likewise, Mike _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
