Re: This project should move to github/gitlab

[Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen]

The problem is not primarily where the project is hosted; GNU Savannah
works very well for a lot of successful projects; the problem is, as
it seems, a project maintainer who has been not as active as would
have been healthy for this project.

While some may not care whether a project is hosted on Github or not,
others may do and we should respect them as well. The guidelines of
the GNU project are less questionable than responsible for why we have
such a rich ecosystem of free software nowadays.

In any case, I'd suggest - if the current maintainer remains silent -
to contact the GNU project and ask for a possible co-maintainership or
replacement. Forking this project on Github or somewhere else should
be the last resort.

Best regards,

Marc

Am Di., 15. Feb. 2022 um 14:38 Uhr schrieb Franz Flasch <franz.flasch@gmx.at>:
>
> It got merged! So it seems there are actually people maintaining this.
>
> However, I'm still not convinced that is really an official place to
> contribute to. It looks official, but I am not really sure about that.
>
> Also I saw that according to GNU github.com should not be used:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
>
> But honestly, I would not care about that, I really like GNU, but I
> surely don't follow all of their guidelines.
>
> IMHO it's better to have place where (new, young) developers can
> contribute to than having a dying SW just because of questionable
> guidelines.
>
>
> Anyway, how can we find out if this is official? If not, I would prefer
> to host our own fork on github.
>
>
> Seems we are the only ones caring about GNU Lightning currently, as the
> mailing list also does not seem to be very active...
>
>
> Regards,
> Franz
>
>
> On 2/14/22 13:22, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is already this repository:
> > https://github.com/gitGNU/gnu_lightning
> >
> > This looks like the right place. However I don't know who manages this
> > repository.
> >
> > It is very outdated, so I created a PR to sync it to the latest master:
> > https://github.com/gitGNU/gnu_lightning/pull/1.
> >
> > This way we'll also see if there are people actually maintaining this
> > repo.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Paul
> >
> >
> > Le ven., févr. 4 2022 at 23:16:57 +0100, Franz Flasch
> > <franz.flasch@gmx.at> a écrit :
> >> Hi Paul!
> >>
> >> I totally agree. I started using GNU lightning just recently and I think
> >> it is great. I think moving it to github/gitlab could breathe life into
> >> lightning again.
> >>
> >> Personally I prefer github, but gitlab would also be fine.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Franz
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2/4/22 10:04 PM, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Sending patches via email works, if there is someone on the other end
> >>> applying them, which does not seem to be the case for that project
> >>> anymore. I gave up trying to upstream some patches after 3 attempts
> >>> without feedback, and I'm not the only one in this case, it seems.
> >>>
> >>> I don't blame the maintainer, who may have very little time on his/her
> >>> hands, but this situation will eventually lead to the death of the
> >>> project, if those who want to contribute don't have the means to do so.
> >>>
> >>> So let's move the project to github/gitlab, which will allow PRs to be
> >>> *visible* and not buried in a mountain of emails, and bug reports to
> >>> actually be seen.
> >>>
> >>> Last but not least... Improving Lightning right now is a real pain,
> >>> because truth to be told, nobody will run the tests on all archs after
> >>> each commit. But a CI instance on github/gitlab can totally do that.
> >>> Creating a PR would trigger the tests on all supported archs, and we
> >>> would immediately detect when something has gone wrong.
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully you will agree that it makes sense and is a step in the
> >>> right direction.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> -Paul
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>