On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 9/15/19 12:06 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > There's nothing that requires you to interact with a VCS repository that > > you > > don't care to. > > But I do care about using Git, and interacting with other DDs using it.
Cool. > However, basically, what you're saying is that, for those who care about > not using non-free platforms, we should just not do that anymore, as > it's not required anyway. No. If this were about a non-free Subversion hosting service, then yes, I'd agree. But we're talking about git here, which is a distributed VCS service. If you don't want to deal with a non-free hosting service, you can: - Clone the git repository. - Push it to the free git hosting service of your choice. - Push a branch to that git hosting service with the changes you wish to make. - Use git request-pull to send a pull request to the maintainer. (Alternatively, if using salsa, for the first two steps you can use the "mirror repository" feature of GitLab) > That's simply not fair: I care more about software freedom, and > therefore, I'd be left aside, not being able to use Git when > interacting with others. Except you're not. The above will require that the maintainer on the non-free hosting service do some more work, yes; that's correct. However, "git request-pull" will explain to that maintainer how to do that work, and it's their own fault for using a non-free service to begin with. -- To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard
