On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 03:58:09PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
Whenever this topic has come up, I've see lots of this, except
people don't
say the first part out loud: "Of course _I_ use GitHub for most of my stuff,
because of all of the advantages — but Fedora, Fedora should never." We
can't let ourselves be held by that.
At the risk of straying off-topic, an approach I really like (which is
in the spirit of Git being distributed) is to use an open source forge
primarily, with GitHub only as backup.
e.g.
https://fennel-lang.org/ uses SourceHut with a GitHub mirror (with
a wiki sadly still on GitHub, but that's a minor matter).
I don't think Gitlab open core is ideal. But I think it's
closer than
GitHub. And I deeply believe that free software and real open source is
_just plain better_ as a model, and I think they'll eventually realize that
too. I think we could have a LOT more impact working WITH GitLab to move
towards an all-open model than we will continuing on the current path.
Speaking of GitHub, I should also note that some Fedora projects (just
not packaging) are maintained there.
Best regards,
--
Michel Alexandre Salim
profile:
https://keyoxide.org/michel@michel-slm.name