Re: debbugs tracker builds character

[David Engster]

Ted Zlatanov writes:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:50:01 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 
> EZ> If you expect an answer from me, then I don't have enough information
> EZ> to do that.  I never worked with Gitlab, have only a casual
> EZ> familiarity with Github, and don't have any clear idea of what would
> EZ> that mean for the process.  Someone™ will have to set up a test
> EZ> repository which can be freely played with, and provide enough
> EZ> instructions for the relevant frequent ops to allow some first-hand
> EZ> experience with Gitlab (or whatever).  Only then I will be able to say
> EZ> something intelligent.
>
> The license is the first issue, before we do that work. Gitlab is not
> GPL: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/LICENSE
>
> Is that acceptable?

According to the "GNU ethical repository criteria" GitLab currently has
grade C, meaning "Acceptable hosting for a GNU package", and is actually
pretty close to grade B ("Good enough to recommend"). See

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

-David