Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

[Alexandre François Garreau]

Le samedi 22 février 2020, 21:15:19 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Alexandre François Garreau, le sam. 22 févr. 2020 13:50:49 +0100, a 
ecrit:
> > Le vendredi 21 février 2020, 22:57:55 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > Alexandre François Garreau, le ven. 21 févr. 2020 11:59:42 +0100, a
> > 
> > ecrit:
> > > > Le jeudi 20 février 2020, 18:39:52 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > > > I'm not saying that GNU will necessarily stop growing and
> > > > > decline.
> > > > > What
> > > > > I'm afraid is that it might just become insignificant compared
> > > > > to
> > > > > others, and thus its voice for the 4 freedoms become less and
> > > > > less
> > > > > heard.
> > > > 
> > > > That’s a reasonable fear, so that should be what should have been
> > > > measured in the metrics discussed in this thread.
> > > 
> > > But how can you measure *that*?
> > 
> > Do the same metrics with other projects, possibly linked but faarer,
> > included in GNU(/Linux) OS, be it Linux, Xorg packages, (La)TeX, KDE,
> > Gnome, etc.
> 
> That would allow to compare with other free software projects, yes. But
> what I'm after is not comparing with other free software projects, but
> with other places where people may want to contribute. Places which are
> not necessarily so much about free software and do not aim to be, such
> as github.

But then it is not really specifically about GNU anymore…

And if something between github vs. the rest is to be learnt… then this is 
something to be learn to how much SaaS (“cloud”)-based platforms are 
preferred to self-hosting… this does not indicate anything toward what to 
do.  It is obvious that centralization and uniformity is more simple hence 
more attractive… but we shouldn’t do it anyway…