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Cyril wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 3:53 pm
jmaustpc wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:58 pmIs there anyone who is based in Europe?
Of course. Many forum's user are based in Europe as testified by the number of «Forums in other languages» sections. I am pretty sure you are aware of that so can you precise what you have in mind ?
Source code hosting facilitis. Such as the ones in the wikipedia link he provided.
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Cyril wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 3:53 pm
jmaustpc wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:58 pmIs there anyone who is based in Europe?
Of course. Many forum's user are based in Europe as testified by the number of «Forums in other languages» sections. I am pretty sure you are aware of that so can you precise what you have in mind ?
No, sorry I was not clear in that comment, by "anyone" I don't mean FreeCAD people, I know we have many of those, I meant hosting services like GitHub, but in Europe not the USA and not owned/controlled/effected by the USA. :)
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kisolre wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 4:09 pm
Cyril wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 3:53 pm
jmaustpc wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:58 pmIs there anyone who is based in Europe?
Of course. Many forum's user are based in Europe as testified by the number of «Forums in other languages» sections. I am pretty sure you are aware of that so can you precise what you have in mind ?
Source code hosting facilitis. Such as the ones in the wikipedia link he provided.

we cross posted! :)

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We could host a GitLab instance in DigitalOcean's Frankfurt, Germany datacenter. This is currently where some of the FreeCAD hosting experiments are located, including the IRC<->Gitter mirroring bot. However, GitLab is a bit beefy in terms of requirements, so we'd need at least a $20/month machine, and it would be better to have a $40/month one.
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jmaustpc wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 4:11 pm No, sorry I was not clear in that comment, by "anyone" I don't mean FreeCAD people, I know we have many of those, I meant hosting services like GitHub, but in Europe not the USA and not owned/controlled/effected by the USA. :)
Yes as noted in my previous post. Framasoft is a french trustful 18 years old association. For example last year they did crowdfunding campaign for Peertube. They host their own gitlab instance in France. If french government word censored up even more than as they do now and start some kind of embargo Framasoft will warn you long time before anyone get his access cut. They often campaign for free software adoption in public institutions and against stupid laws which wants to limit free internet, internet neutrality and free software.
They encouraged people to run their own instance but welcome everyone.
Cyril wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:26 pmIf self hosting is an issue. Some great and stable free/libre software promotion associations has Gitlab instance like Framasoft : https://framagit.org
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Besides framagit.org and salsa.debian.org there's also invent.kde.org for FOSS project hosted GitLab instances.
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I spent some time reading this thread, and while arriving at the end, I am still trying to figuring out what we are trying to fix as issue ? Is there any changes into github which prohibits us to continue to work on FreeCAD ? The fact that they are cancelling accounts from people located in foreign countries might be an issue, but follow the application of the export regulations of the US (and they might also have unpublished reasons also). Europe is doing the same thing even if we do not apply strictly the same rule than US. Self hosting might be an option, but the liability aspect seems pretty high to me especially if we explain that we are willing to do it to workaround international export regulation. This is definitly not a good idea that we can't recommend at all, and this could be considered as unlawful even in Europe.

If we self host we must follow international export restriction, or at least the people in charge of it otherwise this could expose them to some very serious issues. I will probably not have written all of this a couple of decades ago due to my younger age and lack of knowledge on this matter, but after having spent a lot of time with legal people involved into open and closed source solutions, all of this is serious things.

I am totally open to alternative to github, but I really believe that the reason we switch shall be driven on something else than github is following changes into export regulation. It is extremely sad for the people living into the impacted countries, but we are not entitled to change the laws.
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We are not entitled to change laws, but I think it's very important that an open source project like ours fights for these kind of things. For ex, refusing or even making it difficult for someone, say, from Iran, to collaborate or even get FreeCAD, just because some government of some country said so, would be totally, fully, absolutely wrong and completely against everything we're doing here (my opinion of course, but hopefully it is shared by the vast majority here).

I don't think anyone would bother to sue us if we self-hosted a FreeCAD Git server and didn't enforce US law... At least at the moment :) But it would indeed be just pushing the issue forward, because sooner or later the hosting provider we use would decide to follow US law, then we're back at point zero. But using providers who fight for the same causes such as framagit is good i think.

However a solution now appears brightly to me: Let's spread! Let's not have a single FreeCAD Git address! Let's have FreeCAD mirrors everywhere! All it needs is dedicated people wishing to help maintain the mirror (It's not much work, just push the latest changes to it regularly, until we find a way to automate it). I'm maintaining the gitlab one now, I can do other too (I've configured git so when I push to github it pushes togitlab too), anyone volunteering to create and maintain a mirror on framagit?
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yorik wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2019 3:34 pmanyone volunteering to create and maintain a mirror on framagit?
Yes, I'll do it after diner. If I remember well there is a way to automate mirroring. I'll get a look into this.
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Another very interesting tool in this regard is https://radicle.xyz/ which uses IPFS (Interplanetary File System) to provide a git repository, issue tracker, and pull request system in a decentralized manner. Still rather early but it has potential.
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