Ask for a RubyMine free license
I talkde a little bit with few people about which IDE to use for ruby.
It seems like several like to use SublimeText which is indeed a great IDE but can be hard to setup and use.
To me, JetBrains provides some of the top IDE in the market. I already use PyCharm et IntelliJ for personal use and I love it.
As a well-known ruby project community, I thought it could be a good idea to ask for a free license for RubyMine in order to make the developement easier for newcomer (like me).
http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/buy/
What is your opinion ?
David Thompson Wed 16 Jul 2014 11:33AM
RubyMine is nonfree software and I don't think that Diaspora should be endorsing it. Strongly opposed.
Jason Robinson Wed 16 Jul 2014 11:43AM
@davidthompson do you also oppose me writing diaspora* code with SublimeText, which is also non-free software?
diaspora* as a project has never aimed to only use free software. What the project produces is free software.
Deleted account Wed 16 Jul 2014 11:44AM
@davidthompson : we are not obliged to do anything. Those who want to continues developping under emacs or sublime, could continue doing it.
Furthurmore, if we had to only use FOSS to develop Diaspora*, it would be a problem.
Not sure every developper uses only a linux or BSD. Some might be under Windows, or Max with XCode.
David Thompson Wed 16 Jul 2014 11:49AM
Personally using nonfree software isn't a problem, but it is a problem (in my opinion, of course) when a free software project publicly endorses nonfree software by reaching out to a company like JetBrains for gratis licenses. That is what I'm opposing here.
Jason Robinson Wed 16 Jul 2014 11:55AM
Sorry David I misunderstood.
So I guess we should set up a vote then before reaching out to JetBrains, to make sure everyone gets to give their opinion.
David Thompson Wed 16 Jul 2014 12:00PM
Sure, If I'm outvoted, the people have spoken. :)
Poll Created Wed 16 Jul 2014 12:04PM
Contact JetBrains to ask for RubyMine licenses Closed Wed 23 Jul 2014 12:09PM
Should Diaspora* community contact officially JetBrains to ask for free licences of RubyMine for its developpers ?
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Agree | 80.0% | 4 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 20.0% | 1 |
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| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 50 |
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5 of 55 people have participated (9%)
Deleted account
Wed 16 Jul 2014 12:04PM
RubyMine is a great IDE and asking for free licenses do not engage to do anything.
Jason Robinson
Wed 16 Jul 2014 1:02PM
Licenses from a popular IDE like RubyMine could attract some developers on the fringe of contributing. We don't need to endorse it, just distribute licenses to those interested. We could also promote other FOSS editors in the same process.
Jason Robinson · Wed 16 Jul 2014 9:36AM
Sounds like we meet the requirements, so I'd say go for it! If you feel unsure if you want to do it, we could draft an application message here and a member of the GitHub organization for example could make the application (myself for example) - so then they can see the person is really affiliated with the project from GitHub.
Not sure how many licenses they give, but I guess then we just track given out licenses according to whatever rules they set.
But a great idea! More treats like this from companies the better ;)