From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
Cc: bozhidar@batsov.dev, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs packages, GitHub and software freedom
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:32:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1o9ej5-0006ff-1M@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8sa2p26.fsf@disroot.org> (message from Akib Azmain Turja on Wed, 06 Jul 2022 22:17:37 +0600)
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> This way you are just worsening the situation. (But you obviously have
> the freedom to do that.) To increase the "contributor-base" outside
> GitHub, we have to convince maintainers to move away from GitHub.
I agree.
But I should point out also that GitHub has several bad practices
that have done great harm to the free software commnity.
See https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html for
what they are. These have happened for years, and we have urged people
to reject GitHub for years.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-08 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-06 13:32 Emacs packages, GitHub and software freedom Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-06 13:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-06 13:58 ` Yoni Rabkin
2022-07-06 14:29 ` Gerry Agbobada
2022-07-06 14:33 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-07-06 16:17 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-06 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-06 18:03 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-06 18:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-06 18:48 ` Yoni Rabkin
2022-07-06 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-06 19:28 ` Yoni Rabkin
2022-07-06 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 3:32 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-07-08 8:11 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-08 8:18 ` Po Lu
2022-07-08 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-06 15:22 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-06 20:52 ` Tim Cross
2022-07-06 22:31 ` Yoni Rabkin
2022-07-08 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
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