Re: [libreplanet-discuss] GNU ethical repository criteria: Should privacy issues really be extra credit?

[Daniel Pocock]

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On 19/11/15 02:19, Niels Nesse wrote:
> I recently came upon the GNU ethical repository criteria: 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html
> 
> I am very pleased to see the FSF take up this issue. There has been
> far to much apathy on the part of developers regarding the ethics
> of hosts.

I'm not sure that talking about apathy alone demonstrates a real
understanding of the problem.

Whenever developers do try to host anything ourselves (whether it is
email, Git, a blog or a bug tracker) it starts to take away valuable
time and a lot of energy.  Just because we can get an Apache package
from a GNU/Linux distribution doesn't mean that it is the end of the
story.

Just hosting my own blog, I regularly experience crude DoS attacks and
I've had to shut down the comments functionality because I no longer
have time or energy to keep investigating anti-spam solutions.
Usually I just include a mailing list link in blog posts now and I
hope people will discuss things on the appropriate lists.

I personally chose to put some projects on Github because I have the
freedom to completely clone them elsewhere so I am not completely at
the mercy of Github.  I usually disable the Github wiki and issue
trackers unless I really want to use those things because I don't want
too much data tied up in their system.

I think the FSF approach (ranking each provider) is a good step but it
is not the complete solution.  The real solution needs to look at how
to encourage free-software-minded sysadmins to volunteer time and
energy to run things to the highest standard on the FSF criteria, not
just for repository hosting, but for everything else, including email,
SIP, XMPP, etc

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