[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Move from svn to Git (and by git I mean Gitea)

[Regina Obe]

IRC is my most favorite form of communication so glad it's still alive.
I do still dream of a day of services not in the hands of commercial interest but more in the hands of public interest kind of like the usenet I remember so fondly and IRC which is old but still here.

I think services/cloud is something that is just a reality. I want to do as much as I can to at least its not in the hands of just a few big companies. 
That to me means support the interoperability of it so like you said people with stronger opinions aren't forced to use something that violates their moral makeup, way in working or they simply don't have the tooling for.

Like if you don't know git and don't want to be bothered with github, why can't you just submit a patch like you used to -- there should be an avenue for that.
How can we make more avenues less burden for us to check?

That means focusing more on how can tools share data interoperate with each other -- than how can we use Github to improve our workflow.
Many find that pointless and redundant, I get that and so I know that yes I will need to spend more work on that than most because it's more important to me even at the expense of giving up things I'd rather be doing.

Thanks,
Regina


-----Original Message-----
From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sandro Santilli
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:32 AM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Move from svn to Git (and by git I mean Gitea)

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:03:34AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:

> My idealogy comes from bad memories of people using  ArcGIS just 
> because everyone else is or it was mandated not because it worked 
> better for them,

Same here. Memories of people asking me to send them documents in .doc format, or expecting me to be able to read .doc files, or expecting me to be able to use their web services which only worked with Internet Explorer.

Unfortunately that's becoming a reality once again now, due to burst in proprietary solutions spread by mobile phones and "cloud" solutions.

I wonder when this mailing list will become obsoleted as well and we'll start having to install some binary blob on phones to discuss roadmaps or policies. IRC was already almost killed (thanks matrix.org for keeping it alive!).

What I'm trying to avoid is being _forced_ to use proprietary software in order to contribute to development of a free software.

--strk;
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