On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 6:47 PM Eric Gourgoulhon <egourgoul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Le mardi 21 août 2018 10:43:19 UTC+2, Erik Bray a écrit : >> >> >> Why GitLab? In short, we felt it would likely be more acceptable to >> most members of the Sage community; this was a feeling we had even >> before the Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub was announced. First of >> all, GitLab is open-core, meaning that the majority of their software >> is open source, but for paying customers there are additional features >> that are not made open source. This, in addition to providing higher >> level of support to paying customers, is the basis of their business >> model. But IMO it is more inherently open source-friendly than, say, >> GitHub. >> > > > +1 for privileging GitLab over Microsoft's GitHub.
One thing I should make clear: This choice should not be taken as an opportunity for Microsoft bashing (which I am *not* accusing you of doing, but this wording made me think I should make a disclaimer). Prior to OpenDreamKit, Microsoft was one of the first, if not the first, organizations to provide direct funding for Sage development. At the time it was not nearly enough for what needed to be done. But I would certainly welcome more such funding, or other resources, such as donated resources on Azure for continuous integration / builds on Windows. There are also areas where I think Microsoft could really help Cygwin development by opening up more documentation on how the WSL works (an for those wondering, the WSL is as yet not a full replacement for Cygwin, or vice-versa). Of course, in the off chance I or anyone else are able to get some support from Microsoft again, if they placed certain conditions on it--such as using GitHub--we would be forced to decline. >> For an immediate use case >> of this that I have in mind, I would like to make it easier for users >> to submit documentation fixes: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25914 > > > This sounds very nice! > >> >> >> What does everyone think? Is there anyone opposed to going ahead and >> opening up merge requests? > > > > A big +1 for going ahead! and many thanks for your work. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
