Re: how much of a forge is SaaSS?

[Yuchen Pei]

bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> writes:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:59:51 -0400 Richard wrote:
> > If a project operates the forge, and its participants use it 
> > for
> > working on that project, that is not SaaSS.  In this case, _the
> > project_ is using the forge.
>
> i agree; but none of the forges on this list are of that case -
> perhaps savannah.gnu.org is, because all projects are GNU
> projects; but savannah.nongnu.org is not
>
> thats why Yuchen's essential question is: how much of the
> functionality of forges would qualify as SaaSS, in cases where 
> it
> is operated by "someone else"
>
> IMHO, projects are using these freebies only because the are
> popular, and for the convenience of someone else maintaining
> their infrastructure for gratis - nothing prevents projects from
> operating their own forge, or to competently manage their
> projects without any forge - even if they must pay for hosting,
> it would be only a few bucks per month, for most projects -
> IMHO, that qualifies all but savannah.gnu.org as SaaSS

Judging from rms' response, there are basically two criteria to 
determine whether a service is SaaSS:

1. Whether it does communications only
2. Whether it is operated by people / project using it

And the service is SaaSS if and only if the answer to both 
questions are no.

With that it looks like NonGNU is not SaaSS because it the answer 
to the first question seems to be yes. And it is not unrealistic 
for a forge to satisfy criterion 1 without satisfying criterion 2.

Best,
Yuchen

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