[Koha-devel] Gitlab policy changes

[dcook at prosentient.com.au]

Victor, it's clear that we do not see eye to eye on this topic, and I don't think that is going to change with further discussion.

Let's see what Gitlab says.

David Cook
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-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Grousset/tuxayo <victor at tuxayo.net> 
Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2022 4:25 AM
To: dcook at prosentient.com.au
Cc: 'koha-devel' <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Gitlab policy changes

On 22-06-29 04:00, dcook at prosentient.com.au wrote:
> [...]
> Victor, I'm not going to try to respond line by line to your message,

No worries, what about the main point of my 1st message? That we don't fit at all with their terms when looking at our roles list no matter how we define maintainers.

> but I will say that everyone (myself included) has just been genuinely trying to interpret Gitlab's policy and how it applies to Koha; no one is trying to mislead anyone. The Koha community is the most good natured group of people that I've ever known in my entire life.

Sorry that I have made many people uncomfortable.

When I said «In practice we would be trying to scam GitLab.com» it was in «You don't realize it but it's misleading». Not «You are consciously and malevolently thinking to mislead them»


> [...]
> 
> Anyway, I think that Tomas is going to try reaching out to Gitlab for more information, so we'll see what they say. Ultimately, we can speculate one way or another all we want, but it's up to Gitlab to say whether or not we fit, and I think that you can rest assured that we'll be open and honest with whatever information that they want to support their decision-making.

Bringing up HLT or Koha Community as non profit organization to be able to tick the box «project maintainers are not seeking to make profit from this project by for example, selling services [...]» didn't look like «you can rest assured that we'll be open and honest with whatever information that they want to support their decision-making»

Instead I though we gotta be upfront with ourselves if we were going that way which seemed misleading to me. (to bend so much things so they
fit) And that we needed to find reasons to be morally ok with that.

Cheers,

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Victor Grousset/tuxayo