Re: CPE Git Forge Decision

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:42 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> The end result of this is that we (Fedora) have somehow indicated to
> CPE that we have no preference whatsoever for F/OSS tooling. I do not
> believe that should have been the case.
>
For what it's worth, when I sent the list I included a reminder that
FOSS is always our strong preference where viable. It was a mistake to
not leave that in as a user story. I own that. I did that because of
the unanimously-adopted[1] Council position that "The Fedora Project
wants to advance free and open source software and as a pragmatic
matter we recognize that some infrastructure needs may be best served
by using closed source or non-free tools today. Therefore the Council
is willing to accept closed source or non-free tools in Fedora's
infrastructure where free and open source tools are not viable or not
available."

You're right that it should have remained in.

> One thing I'll note here: this is *exactly* the kind of thing that
> would have come to light very quickly if the open process which was
> committed to at the start had actually been followed through on.

You are absolutely right. I screwed up.

[1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-council-december-2018-hackfest-report/

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