Re: Bison 3.0.5

[Akim Demaille]

> Le 22 mai 2018 à 11:06, Ricky Zhang <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> There are tons of people hosting Bison in Github. Nobody knows who is the 
> real maintainer and which branch is the upstream master one. Last time, I 
> spent hours to figure out the legitimate Flex source repo.
> 
> In addition, it is very difficult to verify the candy you handle out is legit 
> without tampering. I’m not implying you did. But I just don’t trust anyone 
> for security concern.
> 
> But if you are willing to maintain bison. It is a great thing that we start 
> to move Bison to Github in the name of FSF. 
> 
> People comes and goes. Only FSF stays. :-)

Exactly.  And Github is not free software, so you’ll understand
easily why what you propose won’t happen.

The master of Bison is hosted on savannah.gnu.org, and it’s been
there virtually for ever.