dachary

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by dachary 4y ago
The previous blog post is more explicit and reads Open Core: > An enhanced enterprise version But that's a general problem with these two blog posts. They leave much to interpretation. Except for one thing: Gitea Ltd is in control o
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by dachary 4y ago
To be more specific, I raised 50K€ funding in January 2022 for the benefit of two Gitea owners (zeripath and techknowlogick). They did nothing with this funding and blocked any possibility for anyone to use the funds, it just went away. It
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by dachary 4y ago
I will work with signatories of the Gitea Open Letter to start a fork and update the progress daily at https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/updates/
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by dachary 4y ago
> The answer is bluntly; no. I share the same conclusion. It is time to fork.
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by dachary 4y ago
There only are three demands: > A non-profit organisation owned by the Gitea community is created. > The Gitea trademark and domains are transferred to the non-profit. > The name of the company is changed to avoid any confusion wit
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by dachary 4y ago
This is a possibility if diplomacy fails. But diplomacy and dialog should happen first. Going public and publishing this open letter is a sign that other forms of diplomacy did not work (including private messages). Although people secretly
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by dachary 4y ago
The Gitea Open Letter has links to the two documents that have the facts you ask for, at the bottom of the page. And with links within the text. They are: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTR
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by dachary 4y ago
It may be the case that Lunny forgot he has a moral obligation to the Gitea community that elected him year after year. Even though there is no legally binding contract. What was done is morally unacceptable. But that can be easily fixed. J
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by dachary 4y ago
Sometime people make mistakes, big ones. That happens and this open letter gives them the opportunity to make right by the community. A fork is a last resort option, when everything else failed. Patience and understanding is a good thing in
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by dachary 4y ago
Do I think it will persuade Gitea Ltd to give back the domains and the trademark? Honestly, I don't have high hopes. Even if each and every contributor to Gitea signed the letter, I'm unconvinced they will do right by the communit
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by dachary 4y ago
A few of the top contributors are the one behind the company. It is fair to assume they are perfectly ok with stealing from the community as it directly benefits them...
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by dachary 4y ago
I'm concerned because domains & trademark, previously under the governance of elected community leaders are now owned by a for-profit corporation based in Hong Kong. This is a takeover. I work daily on the Gitea codebase as part of
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by dachary 4y ago
All you found was essentially me guessing from weak signals with no confirmation. As for my financial interest in Gitea ... I was never involved with the newly formed company. If you mean that I raised over 100,000€ for the benefit of the G
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by dachary 4y ago
Gitea was a community led project with democratic elections. The entire community was taken by surprise by the announcement. This is what you would call a "breaking change" in a release :-) One thing is for certain: Gitea is no lo
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by dachary 4y ago
This announcement took the entire Gitea community by surprise, including volunteer developers contributing code daily to the project. Gitea turned from being a community led democratic project to a company that owns the domains and the trad
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by dachary 4y ago
In terms of business model, yes. Now Gitea and GitLab are both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model There is however a difference and that matters significantly. GitLab was a company when they made the move to
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by dachary 4y ago
It means there will be a proprietary version of Gitea, named Gitea Enterprise or something similar. The company is based on an Open Core business model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model .
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by dachary 5y ago
Yes, it is solved in this particular context: Linux kernel, Qemu and all Free Software projects that have a mail based workflow. But there are other contexts where Free Software developers chose a different workflow such as using a forge. W
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by dachary 5y ago
Federating software projects so they can be interacted with from any forge frontend is the main focus. But federating the search engines internal to each forge is another important aspect. When federated search becomes a reality, looking fo
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by dachary 5y ago
Note that https://fedeproxy.eu is a kind of reverse proxy to cope with forges that do not want to (or don't have yet the ability to) federate issues.
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by dachary 5y ago
I would be interested to read more about the Nextcloud ActivityPub features. I know about ActivityPub related discussions back in 2018[0] which links to a blog post[1] from the author of the activity app[2] that is natively included in ever
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by dachary 5y ago
Please make sure it has federation features built in. In other words commenting on a bug report should not require to login on the instance where the bug was created. In the same way replying on a mastodon toot does not require an account o
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by dachary 7y ago
At the time Epstein was not a convicted rapist. However he certainly was a shady character and it is likely Minsky had every opportunity to distance himself from him. But he did not.
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by dachary 7y ago
You did not read more than the title, did you?
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by dachary 13y ago
Ten years ago I funded my own company and became a Free Software vegetarian : not eating nor cooking anything but Free Software. I'm a developer and a few years later switched back to being an employee rather than a manager. During the