[Savannah-hackers-public] Quote from Savannah regarding GNU Ethical Repository Criteria for Announcement

[Andrew Ferguson]

Hi,

As you may be aware, over the past few months a team of volunteers at 
the Free Software Foundation have been working on the GNU Ethical 
Repository Criteria. This is a criteria that rates code hosting 
repositories such as Savannah on their commitment to the right of their 
users, in areas such as free software, accessibility, and privacy.

Although the criteria itself was released in 2015, at that time no 
repositories were graded, as work was still being finalised on the 
content of the criteria itself.

More recently, several of the more popular code hosting repository 
services - including Savannah - have been evaluated according to the 
criteria. This evaluation is to be published soon, and upon publication 
an announcement will be released by the FSF providing information about 
the released evaluation.

There has been ongoing discussion regarding the content of the 
announcement on the GNU repo-criteria-discuss mailing list and one 
recent suggestion was that a quote from repositories that had passed the 
criteria (such as Savannah) would be a good possible inclusion.

I know that you'll be very busy working on and updating Savannah, but if 
one of the Savannah maintainers had the time I would really appreciate a 
few short answers to the questions below, in a format that would be 
suitable for quoting for the announcement.

Thanks,
Andrew



Why is it important that Savannah passes the ethical repository criteria?

What advice would you give to other code hosting repositories that have 
not passed the criteria and / or do not view it as something important?

Why are the issues raised in the criteria important and / or relevant 
today for users of code repository services?

Any other comments you have about Savannah and the ethical repository 
criteria?