Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>
> Para: Debarshi Ray <rishi is lostca se>
> CC: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Enviado: Jueves 15 de agosto de 2013 18:00
> Asunto: Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror
>
> 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.

I agree that using "official" can be misunderstood as the official or preferred way to interact with GNOME 
code.

So just using the GNOME's github mirror is much clearer from my POV.

Cheers,

   -- Juanjo Marin