Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Launched! Evaluation time

[Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij]

Thanks for your help Mike!

Best regards,
Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij
CEO GitLab Inc.


On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Mike Gerwitz <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 21:57:17 -0400, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 17:34:15 -0400, Zak Rogoff, Free Software Foundation 
>> wrote:
>> GitLab's evaluation has been completed for a while, but I'll be working
>> with Sytse over the next few months on some of the issues.  Most
>> recently, they agreed to have project deletion work without JavaScript
>> enabled[0], which is the last of the essential functionality that I
>> noted.  Their JavaScript is free[1], but this will allow GitLab to meet
>> C0 in the meantime.
>> [...]
>> [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2485,
>>      Staged for 8.1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/milestones/14
>> [1]: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/05/20/gitlab-gitorious-free-software/
>
> The JavaScript change to allow project deletion without JavaScript was
> released on Oct 22nd:
>
>   https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CHANGELOG#L64
>
> This brings GitLab to a C grade (Acceptable hosting for a GNU
> package).  I'll continue to work with GitLab on other issues, even if
> they don't impact the letter grade.
>
> One exciting change coming up around the 17th is the replacement of
> Google Analytics with Piwik on their GitLab.com instance, which is a
> huge win for user privacy (touched upon by B1).  It also eliminates the
> only remaining non-free JS.  (All GitLab JS, including EE, is Free, but
> not yet LibreJS-compatible).
>
> Thanks, Sytse, and everyone else at GitLab that helped out!
>
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> Mike Gerwitz
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