#362 Please do NOT switch to gitlab
I have read somewhere in the mailinglist or wiki or FreeDOS website that you are planing to switch from sourceforge to gitlab.
Please, do not do that.
The Term & Conditions of gitlab are horrible.
If you just want to write a bug report or feature wish for FreeDOS on gitlab you would need to register.
And just to register you have to accept a tremendous amount of things just to be able to register and write a bug report.
Here, take a look:
https://about.gitlab.com/terms/
And now compare that to what sourceforge expects from the user for registration:
https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/
and
https://slashdotmedia.com/privacy-statement/
On sourceforge it is much less to read and to accept. Thus sourceforge is much better for the simple normal users that just wants to report a simple bug.
This makes switching to gitlab a very bad idea.
And if you still planing to switch to gitlab after reading this, then at least make sure that the users can write bug reports without a registration on gitlab.
The issue might be similar for developers.
There are numerious reasons we are moving the Bug Tacking to GitLab. It is already in use and the primary location for bug reports, feature requests and other issues. However, a user does not need to have or setup a GitLab account to submit those items. They can simply send an email to the account provided on the FreeDOS website Bug Page. Issues that are report through email are initially marked as confidential until reviewed and made visible to non-group members.
When a issue reported through email is made visible to non-group members, the sender's email will be visible. Personally, I would prefer that was not the case. But like with sourceforge mailing lists, there is no setting to change that. However, if the sender of the email requests it not be made visible, it can be left flagged as confidential and only group members can see and respond to it.
Honestly, todays spam filters a fairly good. My public email address is all over the internet visible to just about anyone and has been that way for years. Yet, I get very little spam compared to a few decades ago when I kept much tighter control of what made it visible. Then again, spam is an ongiong battle and tomorrow could be different.
From: "Oliver" <asm2@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "[freedos:bugs] " <362@bugs.freedos.p.re.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [freedos:bugs] Re: #362 Please do NOT switch to gitlab
One more question.
You said that the new Bug Tracking system on GitLab is already in use.
Does this mean, that no one is reading the old one here on sourceforge anymore?
I filled some Feature Request and bug report here to this list a few days ago, but the only answer i got was for this topic. All the other are still waiting for an answer.
[bugs:#362] Please do NOT switch to gitlab
Status: open
Group: freedos13
Created: Thu Feb 10, 2022 07:05 PM UTC by Oliver
Last Updated: Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:06 AM UTC
Owner: nobody
I have read somewhere in the mailinglist or wiki or FreeDOS website that you are planing to switch from sourceforge to gitlab.
Please, do not do that.
The Term & Conditions of gitlab are horrible.
If you just want to write a bug report or feature wish for FreeDOS on gitlab you would need to register.
And just to register you have to accept a tremendous amount of things just to be able to register and write a bug report.
Here, take a look:
https://about.gitlab.com/terms/
And now compare that to what sourceforge expects from the user for registration:
https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/
and
https://slashdotmedia.com/privacy-statement/
On sourceforge it is much less to read and to accept. Thus sourceforge is much better for the simple normal users that just wants to report a simple bug.
This makes switching to gitlab a very bad idea.
And if you still planing to switch to gitlab after reading this, then at least make sure that the users can write bug reports without a registration on gitlab.
The issue might be similar for developers.
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This is not a bug, so will close this.
On my end, if I open the https://gitlab.com/groups/FreeDOS/-/issues link in a browser where I'm not logged into GitLab, I can see the list of bugs, and I can click into any of the bugs. So I don't know why you are getting a "login wall."