Re: debbugs tracker builds character

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:49:21 -0400 Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> 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

RS> What is the proposed activity here?  Is this about storing some
RS> software on the gitlab.com repository?  Or about doing something with
RS> some of the programs that run on the gitlab.com servers?  Those
RS> two questions have very little in common.  Or about something else?

Gitlab is software to manage collaboration against a Git repository.
It's similar to the functionality offered by Github and BitBucket, but
is free (as pointed out earlier in the thread) and can be self-hosted
(community edition).

Gitlab.com/gitlab.org host an instance of the Gitlab software and are
not going to be used.

RS> For using a repository, see http://gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.

RS> For running a program, the program needs to be free software.
RS> See http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for the definition
RS> and http://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html for whether various
RS> licenses are free or not.

We believe Gitlab Community Edition is OK in this regard and would like
to do a trial run of using it to submit and review patches to Emacs
(pull requests). Later it may also be considered as the bug/issue
tracker but pull requests are the primary need.

Ted