Sorry for the late reply, I didn't really know what to say. As I was involved earlier in the discussion I feel that by not replying, I am agreeing with your message, Victor. However I do not agree at all. I do not recognize myself in your words and I do not think "scamming gitlab" is a point of the discussion. The matter is to know if we are eligible for a program they support, and find the best way to apply in agreement with their terms and our project's view. We are relying quite a lot on gitlab, and I personally think the open source product they provide is great. I thank their team for that. With this answer, I only wanted to take distance with your words. Cheers, Jonathan Le ven. 10 juin 2022 à 22:42, Victor Grousset/tuxayo <victor@tuxayo.net> a écrit :
On 22-05-26 01:55, dcook@prosentient.com.au wrote:
In theory, the organisation should be the Koha Community so it might be OK, since it doesn't sell services.
In practice we would be trying to scam GitLab.com If we look at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_22.11 and count for Release Manager, QA team, RMaints, Packaging Team, Translation Manager. We have around 17 people and between 11 and 12 are working or subcontracting for private support companies. (Assuming they are all for profit because unfortunately, almost no one does non profit companies even though that totally works to make a living out of one's business.)
We might not have remorse in trying to scam a publicly traded company but we should be aware among ourselves that's the plan.
On 22-05-26 12:39, Jonathan Druart wrote:
There is a checkbox on the form That's the only reason I haven't filled in the form already, it's not clear to me if we are eligible or not.
Reading the checkbox, it looks clear that no matter how we want to define maintainers. There are way too much in proportion that are seeking to make a profit that we can't in good faith try to negotiate that we still fit the criteria.
We can still try and be upfront and present the project and hope that they want to support it.
Or try to scam them without remorse because why not. It's not like GitLab is very respectable since they are publicly traded and the full version of GitLab include proprietary parts.
And self-host the workers if that fails.
Cheers,
-- Victor Grousset/tuxayo