[License-discuss] code hosting (was Re: Evolving the License Review process for OSI)

[Thorsten Glaser]

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Bruce Perens via License-discuss dixit:

>On Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 12:14 Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss <
>license-discuss at lists.opensource.org> wrote:

>>Rick Moen said:

>>>reference to self-hosting his code repo for it.)

I’m self-hosting a number of smaller independent thingies as well.

>Open Research Institute will pursue setting up a non-profit hosting service

That’s nice, but self-hosting has many benefits, especially if
one has been bitten by the problems inherent in outsourcing al‐
ready (perhaps multiple times).

Take as an example that the latest Debian-provided hosting service
is a Gitlab instance, hosted by Debian but not even using the Gitlab
packages from Debian but those from Gitlab (community edition, but
open core is almost non-free IMHO) and they threw away their older
Alioth which was using an only minimally patched packaged FusionForge
as base.

I will not use the Debian-provided Gitlab even for Debian packages
if I can avoid it, both because I’m <insert four-letter word here/>
by their badly coordinated move and because of its proprietaryness.

Your example perhaps/hopefully does not meet the latter…

>with the open source and ethical qualities we all desire. Since this is

… but it certainly is another service that can change or go away
in a jiffie, and those who prefer to not be dependent on such
things do well to self-host.

bye,
//mirabilos
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