Hi. Thanks for giving me an excuse for some axe-grinding :-).
David Bremner writes ("Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked
through Vcs-*"):
> I have a project currently hosted off salsa. I'm willing to have
> read-only mirror, but I'm not willing t
On Wed, 2023-08-30 at 09:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> * GitHub allows anonymous Git cloning and anonymous browsing of the
> repository without creating an account.
[...]
Up to a point. It's rather easy to hit a rate limit when browsing
anonymously.
Ben.
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Diederik de Haas writes:
> I would really like that all packaging is *available* on Salsa, even if it is
> just in readonly 'mode'. Some don't have any Vcs repo listed and that makes
> contributing much harder then needed.
>
> I'm fine if maintainers don't want to deal with Salsa MRs, even thou
On Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 3:23 AM CEST, Ángel wrote:
> If GitHub were blocking access from Russia [1] *and the maintainer
>
> [1] They are not:
> https://github.blog/2022-03-02-our-response-to-the-war-in-ukraine/
The (other) case I was thinking of was Iran. I'm glad people from Iran
were 'unbanned'
Hi Dominik
On 2023-08-30 at 11:04 +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> > On 2023-08-21 at 17:00 +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> > > But, I want to go one step further and think about who is invited
> > > to do what. If *some* people are invited to contribute through
> > > the
> > > VCS, and others are no
On Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:46:38 CEST Russ Allbery wrote:
> So I want to say up front that personally I think the Debian packaging for
> every package in Debian should ideally have an existence on Salsa and all
> maintainers should set up their personal Salsa configurations so that they
> rece
I tend to generally agree with Russ.
But I wonder if there are things we could do on a technical front
Are there things we could do to remove barriers and get to a point where
we can make salsa a valid contribution channel?
Things like
* Add a way to mirror issues from salsa to github for peopl
Dominik George writes:
> Well, the consequence of my proposal, if we take it further, would be:
> If a maintainer lists their VCS in the source package, then they need to
> accept people using it. And if they accept people using it, they must
> ensure that everyone can do so under the same condi
Hi Ángel,
> On 2023-08-21 at 17:00 +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> > But, I want to go one step further and think about who is invited to
> > do what. If *some* people are invited to contribute through the VCS,
> > and others are not, this does not fulfill the requirement of
> > equality. So, if we
Hi Dominik
You proposal looked reasonable, yet at the same time something seemed
to be off.
After some pondering, I think it may be going for the wrong problem.
On 2023-08-21 at 17:00 +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> But, I want to go one step further and think about who is invited to
> do what
On 2023-08-21 at 16:37 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2023-08-21 17:00:04 +0200 (+0200), Dominik George wrote:
> [...]
> > A concrete implementation for GitHub repositories would be to
> > disable issues and PRs
> [...]
>
> As an aside, unless something has changed very recently, GH does not
>
Hi,
> As an aside, unless something has changed very recently, GH does not
> give you a way to disable PRs (issues yes but not PRs).
>
> If that has suddenly become possible, I have around a thousand
> projects I help maintain upstream on a non-GitHub (open source) code
> forge and would love to
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:48:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dominik George writes:
>
> > For the GitHub case, the problematic terms would be that in order to
> > register for a GitHub account, users must be at least 13 or 16 years old
> > (depending on the jurisdiction) ant must not live
On 2023-08-21 17:00:04 +0200 (+0200), Dominik George wrote:
[...]
> A concrete implementation for GitHub repositories would be to
> disable issues and PRs
[...]
As an aside, unless something has changed very recently, GH does not
give you a way to disable PRs (issues yes but not PRs).
If that has
Dominik George writes:
> For the GitHub case, the problematic terms would be that in order to
> register for a GitHub account, users must be at least 13 or 16 years old
> (depending on the jurisdiction) ant must not live in a country under US
> embargoes.
This implies that Salsa is happy to crea
Heisann,
[ for reference, the general discussion was held in 2019 already, in a slightly
]
[ too big context [3].
]
as many of you will know, I am heavily involved in tearing down obstacles
in the way of contributing to free and open sour
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