Quoting Thorsten Glaser (t...@mirbsd.de):
> I will not use the Debian-provided Gitlab even for Debian packages
> if I can avoid it, both because I’m
> by their badly coordinated move and because of its proprietaryness.
Anyone's GitLab is also (IMVAO) grossly overengineered. From my own
Operatio
I'll follow Christopher's good example, and also try to cut to the
chase.
Quoting Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss
(license-discuss@lists.opensource.org):
> Except that we don’t need a representative number. If use cannot be
> found, that would not imply there isn’t any. I certain
We are getting rather far from the topic of license-discuss, aren't we?
Those who are interested in having a non-profit hosting service and would
contribute time to specifying what such a thing should do, and how, please
contact me off of the list. Or forever hold your peace, 'cause I'm going to
ma
John Cowan dixit:
>A basically volunteer agency like OSI "self-hosts" when someone
>volunteers to host for them. When that volunteer loses interest, the
>"self-hosting" goes away.
OK, good point. I was thinking of individuals, or a bunch of
like-minded individuals (but still defined by them inste
Quoting John Cowan (co...@ccil.org):
> A basically volunteer agency like OSI "self-hosts" when someone volunteers
> to host for them. When that volunteer loses interest, the "self-hosting"
> goes away.
Failover is a thing, isn't it?
Let me tell you a story. I'm a longtime volunteer with a loca
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:36 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> … 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.
>
A basically volunteer agency like OSI "self-hosts" when someone volunteers
t
(restored natural reading order, http://deb.li/quote for details)
Bruce Perens via License-discuss dixit:
>On Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 12:14 Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss <
>license-discuss@lists.opensource.org> wrote:
>>Rick Moen said:
>>>reference to self-hosting his code repo for i
Open Research Institute will pursue setting up a non-profit hosting service
with the open source and ethical qualities we all desire. Since this is
potentially a multi-million dollar crowdfunding, it will take a little time
to get started.
Thanks
Bruce
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019, 12:14 Christopher Sea
> Actually, what Thorsten Glaser said was:
[snip]
Not sure if quoting the entire e-mail is actually in disagreement with my
characterization or just being pedantic, but I did not find it helpful. If
anything, it’s a circular pitfall that I’m not going to repeat beyond to
address the addition
Quoting Lawrence Rosen (lro...@rosenlaw.com):
> Somehow a decision will be made eventually here despite accusations of
> "strange personal rhetoric" in Rick's 2019 email that he formatted as "plain
> text." Even HTML is still suspicious to some people, but I changed Rick's
> message to HTML format
Quoting Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss
(license-discuss@lists.opensource.org):
> I didn’t say he did. He commented on a potential lack of public
> hosting as grounds for “absolutely not even [coming] close to checking
> whether a license is in use”. I commented on the general not
[Changing the subject!]
Rick Moen wrote to Luis Villa about Discourse:
> I found it lastingly strange to be targeted by some very strange personal
rhetoric from you for saying that -- and find it suspicious that you, the
main person lobbying for migration away from SMTP/mailing lists to an
ins
> On Jun 8, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
> Desert island, chinese dissident… or even simple things
> such as, a code hosting platform in Russian or Japanese
> which is not discoverable for _you_.
I think we’re talking past each other. I can trivially pull up foreign content
on
Quoting Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss
(license-discuss@lists.opensource.org):
> Code under an Open Source license that is not publicly available might
> as well not be.
Objection: Thorsten didn't speak of code that lacks public
availability.
> If it’s not publicly available a
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