On Monday, 9 August 2021 12:39:37 CEST André Ockers wrote:
Jacob Hrbek schreef op za 07-08-2021 om 13:44 [+0000]:
As mentioned in https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/issues/361 the use of GitHub for REUSE is to my understanding an obvious violation of the constitution of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
Thus i elevate the issue here to be discussed for an appropriate action taken by the FSFE or juridistical authority if sufficient action is not taken by the FSFE.
Taking FSFE's mission seriously, a migration to a platform in the Free Software-friendly ecosystem would indeed look to be an appropriate step to me.
And it's not as if FSFE doesn't have its own hosting platform for repositories:
But then again, here are the REUSE repositories:
Although I understand the motivation for mirroring repositories on other hosting platforms, care has to be taken not to drive people onto those platforms, making them feel obliged to sign up.
I have actually interacted with the REUSE project on GitHub because I previously had to sign up for GitHub at my employer, and since I was going to file or comment on issues, it was "convenient" to do things that way. (The hassle of setting up interaction with GitHub and similar platforms like Bitbucket means that it is never truly convenient.) But I refuse to create a personal GitHub account just to interact with projects, and when I last checked, I was not even allowed to have another account alongside my existing work account.
The FSFE actually has a reasonable foundation for empowering its supporters with infrastructure around identity and other services. When I joined the Fellowship when it was still around, we got smartcards for potential public key cryptography applications, and one could envisage more being made of such technologies to help things like secure e-mail proliferate, as well as making any services more secure and more convenient to use.
Then again, maybe I am just not up-to-date with what people are doing or are able to do with FSFE infrastructure these days, although this might also mean that opportunities are being missed to communicate with people likely to be interested in such matters.
Paul