On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 10:44:27AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:57:08 +0000 (UTC) > > From: Werner LEMBERG [...] > > Just curious: What about using a gitlab instance (which uses the > > GPL-compatible Expat License) on either gnu.org or an existing one > > like gitlab.freedesktop.org? Has this already been considered? I > > couldn't find this in the emacs-devel list archive. > > You mean, forking it and developing our own version free of those > problems? That depends on the resources GNU could use for that: if > there's a need for significant changes, we'd need to maintain that > fork forever. In that case, it seems advisable to understand first why this strategy didn't work out with debbugs ("our" version seems to languish in a state that even merging back Debian's improvements over years has become a difficult task). Cheers - t