[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo guidelines for code hosting ?

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Sun Oct 18 23:27:38 PDT 2015


Il 18/10/2015 12:34, Angelos Tzotsos ha scritto:

> I see the benefits that Andrea mentioned, and I believe that even if the
> official OSGeoLive copy moves back to OSGeo infrastructure, we will
> probably keep a copy on GitHub for project visibility and for accepting
> pull requests... Lets keep in mind that Linux kernel project is doing
> exactly the same: they host the kernel code under kernel.org and have a
> copy on GitHub as a backup.

This makes sense to me. Looks simmple and effective, not disrupting
workflow for exixting projects.

> It is true that GitHub is not Free Software, so IMO we should not be
> depending on it. I see the ethical issues that arise from using a non
> Free provider

+1

Thanks.
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