On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:50:27 +0100 Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2015-02-15, o godz. 15:39:58
> Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> > On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:55:41 +0100 Alexey Lapitsky wrote:
[...]
> > Is Gentoo willing to say "no" to the software freedom and its own
> > social obligations in order to make contributions easier in the
> > simplest way possible?
> 
> Please explain me, how *exactly* does allowing contributions via
> proprietary platform hurt free software?

If this platform will become a de-facto common way to made
contributions (and this may happen taking into account github's
popularity), then platform unavailability or policy changes may
hurt the whole development process.

Please forgive me for repeating myself once more, but I was
directly asked "how", so... Github is not just a git server, this
is a platform with numerous instruments and auxiliary data. In case
of any negative change all these data (issues, code reviews and so
on) will be lost. And there is no clean way to migrate these data
to another facilities. Thus we will have a classic web-based
lock-in with all lock-in driven consequences.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko