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[spec] comments on the proposed gemini spec revisions

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Tue Oct 19 18:03:18 BST 2021

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

On Sun Oct 10, 2021 at 11:57 PM PDT, Omar Polo wrote:

Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com> writes:

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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 ofemails, pointless whining & co, so someone proposed to move thediscussion to a different place. Gitlab was then proposed, and quicklyafter (IMHO too quickly but anyway) the gitlab thing happened.

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

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

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

Alex