[Koha-devel] Gitlab policy changes

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

I think we will contact Gitlab to explain how the project works and see how
things fit (or not). We ain't no lawyers.

We haven't reached any quotas yet, and we can of course host our own
workers. So it feels we're gonna be good in any case.

Best regards

El vie, 10 jun 2022 17:42, Victor Grousset/tuxayo <victor at tuxayo.net>
escribió:

> On 22-05-26 01:55, dcook at 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
>
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