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Re: Redistributing Guile contributions
- To: knotwell at my-Deja dot com
- Subject: Re: Redistributing Guile contributions
- From: "Jürgen A. Erhard" <juergen dot erhard at gmx dot net>
- Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 02:03:21 +0200
- CC: guile-user at gnu dot org
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- References: <KBBOICDCLOAGMCAA@my-deja.com>
>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Knotwell <knotwell@my-Deja.com> writes:
>>
>> Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu> writes:
>>
>> > I don't know if it is realistic or desirable, but how about "Guile on
>> > SourceForge"?
>>
>> It is realistic but not desirable.
>>
>> Sourceforge explicitly endorses the Open Source Movement. Putting
>> Guile at Sourceforge would look like Guile endorsing the Open Source
>> Movement against the Free Software Movement.
Brad> I must be dense, but how does choosing the feature-rich
Brad> Sourceforge over the relatively feature-impoverished
Brad> www.gnu.org (unless you're talking about some other gnu
Brad> site) "look like Guile endorses the Open Source Movement
Brad> against the Free Software Movement?" To pretty much any
Brad> casual observer and, I suspect, most non-casual observers,
Brad> it would just look like the obviously correct choice.
www.gnu.org is not a development site like SourceForge... GNU is much
more than just www.gnu.org
Though I'd wish the `backend' would be more visible... like, make the
CVS repos on subversions visible on www.gnu.org.
>> Therefore we'll move to GNU instead, where we can setup all
>> infrastructure we want.
Brad> Perhaps I misunderstand something, but does this mean it
Brad> would be better, for hair-splitting political reasons, to
Brad> recreate some/all of the work done by the people at
Brad> Sourceforge and graciously donated to the software
Brad> community?
There isn't much (if any) recreation... for once, most of the
important stuff is already installed (there's a CVS repo, for
example). And much of the things on SourceForge is unnecessary... I
personally hate those Web-only fora. (SourceForge is too web-based
IMAO (A=Annoyed, not Arrogant (at least in this case ;-) )))
*And* `we' can setup what *we* want (we're not bound to SF's choice of
bugtracker, or ML software (okay, *GNU* Mailman is a no-brainer)... or
source-control system (I'm likely to switch to Subversion as soon as
it's in an at least semi-usable state))
And GNU *is* political (for some definition of...)
Bye, J
PS: What I love about SourceForge is its openness... however wants to,
can use it. What I'd love even more is an equally open site, but with
a stronger emphasis on liberty (;-)
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