Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Include Gogs (Notabug.org) for consideration

[Zak Rogoff]

On 08/05/2016 03:21 PM, bill wrote:
> hello -
> 
> i joined this list today to suggest notabug for review and was pleased to 
> find that it is being considered already even if the first grade as an F this 
> is a good start
> 
> i found notabug about two months ago and it struck me right off as laden with 
> potential but not yet viable - i have since gottem familiar with the 
> community which is well aware of notabug's shortcomings - they explained to 
> me that notabug and the freepost blog they operate are non-commercial 
> community-driven projects - the admin is graciously providing the server but 
> does not have the time to properly maintain it alone - they forked the gogs 
> project when it ws very immature and buggy and the upstream has made great 
> advances since but notabug has mot been able to keep up
> 
> this is very unfortunate because the site is actually getting quite a bit of 
> lip-service around free-software circles because the community surrounding 
> the site is very libre-concious - there would be absolutely no resistance 
> against totally liberating the site if someone took the initiative to make it 
> happen
> 
> the unique niche i see for notabug is that savanah is currently the only well 
> known code host that is libre-concious but most people find savanah daunting 
> and lacking in asthetics - this is not an important criteria for me but it is 
> for many people - gogs has been styled after github with it's emotes and 
> large shiny buttons screaming "push me, push me" and this is very familiar 
> and appealing factor for many especially the younger ones - yet notabug 
> shares the same philosphy with the FSF, GNU, and savanah such as allowing 
> only the fsf-endored free licences - the few modifications that they have 
> made were mainly concerned with removing the non-free bits such as slack 
> integration
> 
> so myself having some skills and some time i offered to upgrade the site to 
> the latest upstream in order to fix most of the bugs with the alterior motive 
> of studying the codebase to see what it would take to fully librate it - 
> personally i would like to see notabug be the first code host aside from 
> savanah to earn an A libre-rating (ha get it? libre...rating) and im quite 
> certain i could get the whole community to endorse that goal
> 
> not to bore with details but i spent the past week boning up on the go 
> language to get prepared and have begun the upgrade - this should be complete 
> in perhaps as soon as a week and i am confident that the site will fare much 
> better upon the next review - after this is done my plan is been to liberate 
> the js and then consult you guys for advice on going the last mile to meet 
> the highest FSF standards - i hope you guys will help me get behind this 
> little pony so there can be at least one other shining example of an "Ethical 
> Repository" to point at (and one that the kids will like too) - you are 
> welcome to monitor my progress here 
> https://notabug.org/bill-auger/gogs/issues - and feel free to join #freepost 
> on freenode to meet the community
> 
> 
> 
> 

That's great to hear, Bill. Let us know when notabug is ready to be
evaluated again.

-- 
Zak Rogoff // Campaigns Manager
Free Software Foundation

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