Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>]

Hey,

2013/8/15 Debarshi Ray <rishi is lostca se>:
> If you are using GMail (a proprietary web application) for your GNOME
> work, and then turn around and start objecting to the use of GitHub as
> another / secondary distribution channel for our code, then, yes, I do
> find it insincere.
>
> Running your own email infrastructure is much much more easier than
> replicating GitHub with free software.
>
> If you don't even care about the easy things, then who are you to hold
> others to even higher standards?

In my opinion, there's a big difference between someone's personal use
of a non-free service, and GNOME as an entity (which is supposed to
develop and promote free software) promoting a non-free service. This
is what the "GNOME's official GitHub mirror" tagline makes it sound
like.

Christophe

PS: Yes, I'm sending this from a GMail account, no I don't think this
is good, and if you ask me I'm not going to recommend using Google
services. I'm also slowly moving off from GMail.