Re: [Userops] Free softwar community hosting

[Aaron Wolf]

I want to note the existence of https://notabug.org/ which is already expressly 
a free software, free culture project hosting with Gogs. Perhaps we all just 
want to get involved with that…

I'm not sure about ruling out Kallithea, but I haven't tried it or made 
comparisons really. As we're offering ticketing (still in progress though) via 
Snowdrift.coop, we don't care about lack of ticketing and are happy to 
encourage other projects to use the Snowdrift.coop system soon, but 
availability of ticketing otherwise isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I strongly suggest that requirements not be limited to GPL-compatible. Instead, 
we should be only as limited as the FSF/OSI existing authorities are. That 
means we should accept any project entirely using free/libre/open terms, 
despite potential compatibility issues. See what we already worked out for 
concrete requirements at Snowdrift.coop which could be the same for this 
project: https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/project-requirements

Anyway, combining these points, we could choose to just join the NotABug 
community and encourage them to make free/libre/open requirements a priority 
for their site (or more explicit at least). I'm not familiar enough with Gogs 
or the situation behind its development to have an opinion about that vs 
Phabricator vs GitLab CE or others. I do know that the NotABug folks considered 
GitBucket and Kallithea before settling on Gogs…

Cheers,
Aaron

On 03/07/2015 02:14 PM, Jessica Tallon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There have been discussions on IRC and also on a pump.io thread
> (https://io.theperplexingpariah.co.uk/Tsyesika/note/oBSJrForR9mymrm2CqhCbg)
> about starting a community run code hosting site with issue tracking
> since the acquisition and subsequent demise of Gitorious. The following
> projects so far are interested in being a part of this group:
>
> - GNU Mediagoblin
> - My personal projects (Pamrel, PyPump, etc.)
> - Inboxen (possibly)
> - snowdrift.coop
>
> The site would only accept projects which are fully free software, those
> being under GPL compatible licenses. It will be run by the community and
> funded hopefully by the community. I am willing to donate:
>
> - VPS (probably a bitfolk one)
> - SSL certificate (not EV but a standard one from gandi)
> - A domain
>
> A linode server has also been offered by Simon Fondrie-Teitler
> (simonft). The current candidates for software seem to be:
>
> - Gitlab (Maybe not as they offer a proprietary version and have a CLA)
> - Phabricator (Also has a CLA but no proprietary version)
> - Gogs (written in Go, and pretty new)
>
> The one which has more or less been ruled out is Kallithea as it doesn’t
> have an issue tracker or SSH authentication which is unfortunate as that
> would have been a good choice (Free software wise).
>
> Thanks,
> Jessica Tallon.
>
>  
>
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