Re: Subprojects in Savannah

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 at 10:33 AM
> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> To: "Luis Falcon" <falcon@gnuhealth.org>
> Cc: savannah-hackers@gnu.org, bob@proulx.com
> Subject: Re: Subprojects in Savannah
>
>    Sorry, I've waited too long. I have started the migration o the GNU
>    Health mercurial repository to OSDN. It's a pity, but it seems like the
>    requests over these years for the modernization of Savannah have not
>    been taken into consideration.
>
> They have, but like all volunteer projects -- someone has to do the
> work.  Would you like to help with that?  Nothing will happen, nor
> will it help Savannah or the GNU project if everyone does nothing.

Seems to me that there has to be a Gnu Campaign for this, otherwise
the circumstances will remain so - too much work - too few people.


> How is OSDN ranked on the GNU Ethical Repository list?  You say that
> it only hosts free software licesed projects, but that isn't what they
> say -- the say open source licenses, this is not the same.
>
> I suggest that GNU health moves back to savannah, it isn't too late to
> do this.  What needs to be done for this to happen?
>
>    I even asked in the meantime to manually create some additional
>    repositories, but I never got an answer.
>
> Did you remind them?  It might be that they simply missed it.
>
>    Here is the news:
>    https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9874
>
> You are using the word ecosystem -- something that lacks any kind of
> ethical or moral judgment -- to describe GNU Health, it is a word best
> to avoid in describing free software and GNU projects.  See
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Ecosystem .
>
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