Recently the FSF review a few popular hosting services to rate their freedom. https://www.fsf.org/news/gnu-releases-ethical-evaluations-of-code-hosting-services If more exposure for pagure.io as a hosting service is desired, getting added to the FSF's list of evaluations might be a good way to help.
Sounds like a great idea, is it something you would be interesting to raise to them?
I am willing to ask them. Is there a policy posted on what projects can be hosted on pagure.io. I'd like to mention that in my contact message.
Basically the only restriction is that you need a FAS account and to have signed the FPCA (which stipulates that if no license is specified it is considered to be MIT, but you could do something proprietary if you explicitly say that it is).
Other than that, there isn't really any restriction.
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 15:35:43 -0500 From: Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to To: gnu@gnu.org Cc: Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to Subject: Pagure hosting service User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27)
pagure.io is a code hosting service associated with Fedora. People with Fedora accounts can use it, but the code doesn't need to be closely associated with Fedora.
I suggested to them that they would benefit from getting listed in the FSF's hosting service evaluations might help with letting more people know about it. I think Pagure has potential to be the source behind multiple free hosting services and the FSF may want to spend the time reviewing it. The issue I filed for this request (to make sure they were OK with it) is here: https://pagure.io/pagure/issue/976
Awesome, thanks!
Are we able to close this one off now the request is in the works with FSF?
Since it looks like I can comment on closed tickets, I can report anything that happens later. There isn't any pending work for the project, so I don't think we need to keep this open.
Let's close then, but do let us know how things are going, I'm quite curious to know what should be changed to make the FSF happy with pagure :)
I haven't heard anything back, so I don't know if they are going to do anything. I think the main potential issue with Pagure from their point of view is declaring a license for javascript code. They have documented a way to do that that their browser plugin can detect. For trivial javascript it isn't required.
I received the following response: Thanks, Bruno
I'll add it to my internal list of sites to consider evaluating.
Thanks for the update :)