On 03/05/2013 07:19 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Code for this provider (under GPLv2+) is available at:
Congrats! I was wondering if we have relaxed the infrastructure policy of not relying on web infrastructure that depends on proprietary code?
Rahul
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:45:04 -0500 Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/05/2013 07:19 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Code for this provider (under GPLv2+) is available at:
Congrats! I was wondering if we have relaxed the infrastructure policy of not relying on web infrastructure that depends on proprietary code?
there's no proprietary code in openid. Nothing of the sort. What infrastructue depends on it?
The rule has always been - any infra we support and deploy must be open source.
I don't think we've changed that policy
-sv
I think that Raul is talking about the code being hosted on github.
Nothing in fedora infrastructure is proprietary. And nothing that the user gets when interacting with our websites is proprietary. But github is certainly proprietary and we are hosting some of our code there (just like many other open source projects). If that seems like something that we wouldn't have done previously then you could see it as a change in policy.
However, we've never attempted to check if our developers are coding in a proprietary ide or using a non-free os to connect to infrastructure. We've never frowned on people hosting their own code that we use in fedora on sourceforge, github, or other propriety hosting. So in that manner, it doesn't seem like a big leap to start hosting code that we maintain solely for infrastructure there as well. (And to be even more fair, the openid server that puiterwijk wrote is probably a good starting point for other sites wanting an openid server of their own. So hosting it on github has the potential to bring more committers to it.)
-Toshio
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 21:22:19 -0800 Toshio Kuratomi a.badger@gmail.com wrote:
I think that Raul is talking about the code being hosted on github.
Toshio, I see - seeing as he replied to the openid announcement I thought it was about openid. My bad.
thanks for clarifying that, -sv
Hi
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
I think that Raul is talking about the code being hosted on github.
Yep. I should have been more explicit there i guess
Nothing in fedora infrastructure is proprietary. And nothing that the user gets when interacting with our websites is proprietary. But github is certainly proprietary and we are hosting some of our code there (just like many other open source projects). If that seems like something that we wouldn't have done previously then you could see it as a change in policy.
I would say so since this appears to be the first time that Fedora infrastructure developed app is hosted in github.
However, we've never attempted to check if our developers are coding in a proprietary ide or using a non-free os to connect to infrastructure. We've never frowned on people hosting their own code that we use in fedora on sourceforge, github, or other propriety hosting.
As a side note, sourceforge is no longer using proprietary code. http://sourceforge.net/blog/allura-incubator/ I have been looking to package that for Fedora as well. In any case, if this was a deliberate decision to use github, thats fine. A mirror in gitorious might be recommended by policy. Just a suggestion.
Rahul
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