Hosting speakup on freedesktop?

[Didier Spaier]

I don't see an issue using github. Recently Microsoft showed interest
for Linux and open source:
They are a member of the Open Invention Network, alongside Linux
distributions including Slint :-) so they signed an agreement like
this one http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/agreement.pdf
which protect all members.
Recently they did their best to protect youtube-dl from a DMCA takedown:
https://youtube-dl.org/
https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/

Additionally I prefer the interface of github over gitlab's

In the (unlikely, I think) event that github be taken down, it will 
still be possible to time to find another home for speakup, I think.

Just my two euro cents.

Cheers, Didier

On 21/12/2020 23:12, Michał Zegan wrote:
> Just one note: it may not be important enough, but whatever the problem
> may or may not be with github, it is far more accessible as a site than
> gitlab. I don't think gitlab fixed accessibility, ever.
> 
> W dniu 21.12.2020 o 23:03, Kirk Reiser pisze:
>> Hi Samuel et al: That works fine for me. I haven't really had much to
>> do with development work on speakup for a longg time. You had an
>> account on my server but I see it appears to have disappeared sometime
>> over the years for no reason I can think of.
>>
>>    Kirk
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Currently we have an old git repository on
>>> http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git , that was not updated since
>>> ~2013.  I don't seem to have push access to it. We also have some
>>> bug tracking on https://github.com/bytefire/speakup/issues . This
>>> looks quite scattered, and github.com depends on the good will
>>> of Microsoft. I'm thinking that we could have speakup hosted on
>>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org (freedesktop is a "completely volunteer
>>> organisation with no corporate backing or funding stream", notably part
>>> of X.org). We can keep the mailing list as it is, but we could move the
>>> git repository and the issue tracking there, where it is easy to create
>>> accounts, give rights, follow-up on bugs etc.  I have made a request for
>>> a speakup group creation to freedesktop people.
>>>
>>> The idea is that on that repository we could host the latest version of
>>> the speakup source code, so that people can try it without having to
>>> patch and rebuild their whole kernel etc.
>>>
>>> Samuel
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Speakup mailing list
>>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
>>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup