Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-25 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 13:12, Suhail Singh wrote: > Are the relevent portions of your .emacs or init.el accessible > somewhere? https://gitlab.com/zimoun/my-conf Cheers, simon

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-15 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 17:26:07 -0400 Leo Famulari wrote: > And only using GPL2 is part of that. It's a pragmatic choice in favor > of the goals of Linux's leadership team, which are different from > GNU's goals. Of course, Linux couldn't feasibly change to GPL3 > because their copyright licensing mo

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-12 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:32:42 +0100 Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > Another issue is that we'd probably need to tell contributors not to > expect reviews within the forge. It could be told inside the Guix > manual. And at the end of the day, if contributors don't understand > that, it will probably

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-12 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:37:29 +0100 Simon Tournier wrote: > Yes, this can be fixed with tooling. But that’s the wrong frame for > an answer, IMHO. The question is: who commits in maintaining such > tools? This is a good point. One possibility is that someone write tools and that they are collecti

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-12 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 15:02:57 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote: > One thing about how Linux solved these issues, is that it Linux became > commercially valuable to the point where they pay people to maintain > the code, which includes reviewing contributions. I used Linux as an example because I know it wa

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 11:32:37PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > It is possible to require to license things under GPLv2-or-later for > instance, so technically it is not a big issue. VLC also managed to do > license changes, as well as Openstreetmap. It's possible to do GPL2 or later, an

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-11 Thread Suhail Singh
Hi Simon, Simon Tournier writes: > Yeah, I’m happy with my setup and I shared [3] several times how Emacs + > Notmuch + Org-mode is really nice for me. And I also engaged [4] how > public-inbox can help. Are the relevent portions of your .emacs or init.el accessible somewhere? -- Suhail

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-10 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:37:29 +0100 Simon Tournier wrote: > Hi Denis, all, Hi, > That’s said, we must recognize that sending patches by emails is not > smooth at all. Indeed. The configuration (smtp settings, or learning how to import patches in mail clients before sending them, etc) is probably

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-10 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 15:02:57 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote: > And still you can find endless complaints about their onerous > contribution workflow If more people can send patches, it is indeed very good, but the point of these workflow and tools is also to prioritize the efficient of the maintainers o

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-10 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Denis, all, I agree with some points you list here. For instance, using Codeberg, somehow we do not apply the dogfooding principle of “user-autonomy”; as I pointed [1] very early in the discussion. :-) Moreover, it also raises practical considerations as the backup [2] of all the discussions

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-09 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari writes: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 01:55:46PM +0900, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >> Which many concessions to pragmatism are you referring to? The only one >> I can think of is allowing devices to load their non-free firmwares, but >> I'm not even sure this was a concession, more

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-09 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 01:55:46PM +0900, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Which many concessions to pragmatism are you referring to? The only one > I can think of is allowing devices to load their non-free firmwares, but > I'm not even sure this was a concession, more of a 'I don't care what > code runs

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-08 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari writes: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 04:39:34PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: >> If we look at big projects like Linux, they have faced a similar issue >> in the past and as I understand they solved it by using more adapted >> tools and processes and they even ended up m

Re: Scaling issues with forges Was: Trying out Codeberg

2025-03-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 04:39:34PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > If we look at big projects like Linux, they have faced a similar issue > in the past and as I understand they solved it by using more adapted > tools and processes and they even ended up making their own software > tools (git