[spec] comments on the proposed gemini spec revisions

[Omar Polo]

"alex wennerberg" <alex@alexwennerberg.com> writes:

> On Sun Oct 10, 2021 at 11:57 PM PDT, Omar Polo wrote:
>>
>> Alex // nytpu <alex@nytpu.com> writes:
>>
>> > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Since I don't have (and am unable to create) a gitlab account, I wrote a
>> > Gemlog post detailing my responses to a bunch of the issues on the
>> > gitlab repos for Sean Conner's spec revisions.
>>
>> I can wholeheartedly agree with the gitlab rant. I've never used it
>> before and was quite shocked of how bad it is. Even github is "decent"
>> in this regard, on a technical level at least. I can at least *read* a
>> README, the code or the issues with w3m.
>>
>> But it's a sailed ship. We can only try to prevent similar moves in the
>> future.
>
> Should sourcehut https://sr.ht/ be considered? It is also FOSS, has the
> features we are looking for from a git forge, already has a vibrant
> Gemini community, and places a much higher priority on supporting
> alternative browsers / graceful degradation. I apologize if this was
> already discussed originally.

IIRC one day various months ago we were all disappointed of the flood of
emails, pointless whining & co, so someone proposed to move the
discussion to a different place.  Gitlab was then proposed, and quickly
after (IMHO too quickly but anyway) the gitlab thing happened.

In some way, it was a good move: the discussion around the
standardisation stagnated pretty quickly after the move.

(I may sound ironic, but I'm kinda serious: the stagnation of the gitlab
repo has somehow proven that, after all, gemini is quite finished.  Yes,
we have some doubts on how to handle some edge cases, but globally the
community has more or less settled on how things should be and that's
that.)

Various months passed, and is too late to move to another platform, but
we should keep in mind the "gemini gitlab fiasco" for the future ;)

> Alex