Re: [PATCH] Updating homepage to point people to pagure for development.

[Yuchen Pei]

bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> writes:

> the current wording indicates that bug reports are accepted only
> via pagure.io (the mailing list is to be used for "general user
> help and discussion"), further suggesting that the savannah
> issue tracker should be closed - it is in poor taste IMHO,
> for a GNU project to require people to register on a third-party
> website, in order to post a bug report - there may even be some
> policy prohibiting that
>
> from "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software"
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html
>
> > The advertised bug-reporting email address should always be
> > ‘bug-package@gnu.org’, to help show users that the program is a
> > GNU package, but it is ok to set up that list to forward to
> > another site if you prefer. 
> >
> > ...
> >
> > if you would like to use a web-based bug tracking system,
> > Savannah supports this (see Old Versions), but please don’t 
> > fail
> > to accept bugs by regular email as well—we don’t want to put up
> > unnecessary barriers against users submitting reports.

I agree that having the main list on gnu.org and repo on savannah 
is better.  If we were to evaluate pagure.io based on the ethical 
repository criteria[1] it would probably get an F for failing C0, 
because with LibreJS on I couldn't register a new account, nor 
could I create a pull request.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html#C0

> Regarding sending code that runs on the JavaScript platform, any 
> such code used by an important site function either (1) is free 
> software, and labeled properly for LibreJS to recognize as free, 
> or (2) isn't necessary, so that the function works properly even 
> if JavaScript is disabled in the browser.

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Best,
Yuchen

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