Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Include Gogs (Notabug.org) for consideration

[bill]

hello -

i joined this list today to suggest notabug for review and was pleased to find 
that it is being considered already even if the first grade as an F this is a 
good start

i found notabug about two months ago and it struck me right off as laden with 
potential but not yet viable - i have since gottem familiar with the community 
which is well aware of notabug's shortcomings - they explained to me that 
notabug and the freepost blog they operate are non-commercial community-driven 
projects - the admin is graciously providing the server but does not have the 
time to properly maintain it alone - they forked the gogs project when it ws 
very immature and buggy and the upstream has made great advances since but 
notabug has mot been able to keep up

this is very unfortunate because the site is actually getting quite a bit of 
lip-service around free-software circles because the community surrounding the 
site is very libre-concious - there would be absolutely no resistance against 
totally liberating the site if someone took the initiative to make it happen

the unique niche i see for notabug is that savanah is currently the only well 
known code host that is libre-concious but most people find savanah daunting 
and lacking in asthetics - this is not an important criteria for me but it is 
for many people - gogs has been styled after github with it's emotes and large 
shiny buttons screaming "push me, push me" and this is very familiar and 
appealing factor for many especially the younger ones - yet notabug shares the 
same philosphy with the FSF, GNU, and savanah such as allowing only the 
fsf-endored free licences - the few modifications that they have made were 
mainly concerned with removing the non-free bits such as slack integration

so myself having some skills and some time i offered to upgrade the site to the 
latest upstream in order to fix most of the bugs with the alterior motive of 
studying the codebase to see what it would take to fully librate it - 
personally i would like to see notabug be the first code host aside from 
savanah to earn an A libre-rating (ha get it? libre...rating) and im quite 
certain i could get the whole community to endorse that goal

not to bore with details but i spent the past week boning up on the go language 
to get prepared and have begun the upgrade - this should be complete in perhaps 
as soon as a week and i am confident that the site will fare much better upon 
the next review - after this is done my plan is been to liberate the js and 
then consult you guys for advice on going the last mile to meet the highest FSF 
standards - i hope you guys will help me get behind this little pony so there 
can be at least one other shining example of an "Ethical Repository" to point 
at (and one that the kids will like too) - you are welcome to monitor my 
progress here https://notabug.org/bill-auger/gogs/issues - and feel free to 
join #freepost on freenode to meet the community