Hello,
another comment:
Am Montag 09 August 2021 12:39:37 schrieb André Ockers:
Taking FSFE's mission seriously, a migration to a platform in the Free Software-friendly ecosystem would indeed look to be an appropriate step to me.
Our mission with FSFE is to further Free Software, spread knowledge about it and its usage. When hosting the REUSE tools there is a conflict between
* We want contributions wide and spread of the tool to be very easy. Thus more people use it to mark their FS source code better. Github is (unfortunately) a leading place for people that need knowledge about how to mark Free Software files well. And who get into contributing to other people's code bases and software development at all.
* We want to promote Free Software tools (and fair platforms). Where Github is bad (Grade F in the 2015 FSF evaluation) https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
So going to https://foss.heptapod.net/public would be good for the tool promotion goal, but suboptimal for the spread of REUSE. One of the goals has to give.
On a higher level: As the reuse tools mainly target people that do not know about Free Software licensing that well and its use will promote more Free Software usage (because licensing and rights ownership becomes easier), the wider spread would probably have the higher effect on the whole Free Software ecosystem than one more repository on a fair platform does for this platform. At least this is what I believe the FSFE group doing this, was considering, and it is a reasonable choice within the constitution of the FSFE in my view.
Today, using https://foss.heptapod.net/ or gitlab maybe be compromises with a different balance and maybe better. Selbsthosting maybe another, if we have enough help it maintaining the software and platform to keep it uptodate. (Savannah for instance could not keep up over the years.)
Best Regards, Bernhard