[Savannah-hackers-public] Fwd: Coming soon: A new site for fully free collaboration

[stelmo]

Hello

 I would like to collaborate with this project. What I kind of help ou  
need? I can do translations, writes docs, sys admin.

SB

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          Data: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:52:17 -0500
            De: "Andrew Engelbrecht, FSF" <address@hidden>
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       Assunto: Coming soon: A new site for fully free collaboration
          Para: Stelmo Barbosa <address@hidden>
 


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Dear Stelmo Barbosa,

As we said in an end-of-year post[1] highlighting our work supporting  
free software development and infrastructure, the Free Software  
Foundation (FSF) is planning to launch a public code hosting and  
collaboration platform ("forge[2]"), to launch in 2020. Members of the  
FSF tech team are currently reviewing ethical Web-based software that  
helps teams work on their projects, with features like merge requests,  
bug tracking, and other common tools.

The new site will complement the current GNU[3] and non-GNU[4]  
Savannah servers, which we will continue to support and improve, in  
collaboration with their awesome volunteer team. (By the way, if you  
want to volunteer, please email address@hidden with a  
note about your interest!)

Infrastructure is very important for free software, and it's  
unfortunate that so much free software development currently relies on  
sites that don't publish their source code, and require or encourage  
the use of proprietary software. Our GNU ethical repository  
criteria[5] aim to set a high standard for free software code hosting,  
and we hope to meet that with our new forge.

We plan on contributing improvements upstream for the new forge  
software we choose, to boost its score on those criteria. Our tech  
team is small for the size of the network we maintain, and we don't  
have any full-time developers who work for the FSF, so we are limited  
in the amount of time we can spend on the software we choose. We'll  
communicate with the upstream developers to request improvements and  
help clarify any questions related to the ethical repository criteria.

So far, we have been researching a list of candidate programs, and  
analyzing them in terms of ethical and practical criteria. Some of the  
software candidates we're looking at were found on the Free Software  
Directory[6]. We aim to initially reach a B rating on the GNU ethical  
repository criteria, and then to work towards reaching an A rating  
after we launch. Reaching a B will require LibreJS[7] support, no  
third party tracking, proper license information, and more. We also  
came up with a list of practical criteria, which includes two-factor  
authentication (2FA), high performance, being well supported upstream,  
and other common forge features.

We are filtering out systems that are targeted toward single  
organizations or companies, because we want users to be able to sign  
up and create their own repositories on our site. If you're looking  
for a system to handle your organization's source code management  
needs, there are some fully free options out there for you, including  
Kallithea[8], Allura[9], and Phabricator[10].

We also hope that in the future we'll be able to see decentralized,  
federated collaboration platforms that meet most needs. We will  
continue to be interested in that direction, but we think the need for  
this freedom-respecting forge is time sensitive, so we're going to do  
it with the free software we have available right now. Allowing issues  
and other data to be imported and exported is a feature that we want  
in our new forge, because that will at least ensure that users can  
move to another instance of the same platform.

We are tracking our ongoing analysis[11] on the LibrePlanet wiki, and  
will continue updating the page with information pertaining to our  
research about free software for our upcoming forge.

The project will operate with a high level of transparency: we will  
publish the source code that runs on the server and document how we  
run the system, and we welcome volunteers to help guide and improve  
the project. Reach out to us at the LibrePlanet developers mailing  
list[12] if you're interested in participating.

Up next for the FSF tech team is to do more research about systems  
that have met our initial requirements, in order to find the best  
options available. Once we know what we're interested in, we'll start  
trying them out and performing more extensive tests.

Stay tuned to hear from us about the software stack we end up  
choosing, and for our site launch announcement!

Happy hacking!

Andrew Engelbrecht
Senior Systems Administrator
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[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_%28software%29
[3] https://savannah.gnu.org/
[4] https://savannah.nongnu.org/
[5] https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html
[6] https://directory.fsf.org
[7] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-librejs-new-and-improved
[8] https://kallithea-scm.org/
[9] https://allura.apache.org/
[10] https://phacility.com/phabricator/
[11] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation
[12] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-dev
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