Re: CodeBerg addition

[Aaron Wolf]

Absolutely, seconding this suggestion to review Codeberg ASAP. I forgot that it wasn't already there. I think Codeberg is today far-and-away the most robust and popular service that has an explicit software-freedom dedicated focus. If there are any concerns (there may be very few), I am almost certain they would actively engage with us in discussing and working to resolve them.

I am myself using Codeberg now as the repository service for my projects. In fact, after way too much delay, Snowdrift.coop (project I co-founded and am still working on) is now moving to Codeberg and finally escaping GitLab (having initially, though uncomfortably, moved to GitLab back when it was at least acceptable).

I would like to see the GNU evaluation of Codeberg done before publicly announcing the Snowdrift move.

I did notice that Codeberg is criticized at https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/forge_comparison.md for an event in which they were inadequately supportive of some critic of Cloudflare. However, without going deeply into it, this seems like just the the sort of imperfect decision-making that organizations can have. The service is not directly using cloudflare itself nor any other authentication-wall, and I do not think this is a sign of bigger problems or a slippery-slope scenario. I bring it up for others to consider though.

Who will lead the Codeberg review? I am willing to help, especially if someone can take the lead and delegate specific items. I do have other pressing priorities that make it hard to focus on this right now.

Aaron

On 2023-11-05 9:07, Yevhen Babiichuk wrote:

Hello!

I think that Code Berg [1] is enough popular to be in the list [2]. If it is bad, it would be good to have it in the list to show people they shouldn't use it. If it is good, they idea will be the same but opposite.

[1] https://codeberg.org/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html

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Aaron Wolf
co-founder, Snowdrift.coop
music teacher, wolftune.com