Re: poll: switching our development platform

[David Kastrup]

Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> writes:

> With 2.21.0 done, I'd like to restart discussion about switching our
> development platform. To recall, we had proposals about using Gerrit
> [1] (don't miss follow-ups in March [2]) and GitLab / gitlab.com [3].
>
> Simultaneously the FSF has evaluated different Forge solutions [4],
> basically focusing on three tools: Pagure, Gitea, Sourcehut. See [5]
> for my evaluation about issue migration to these platforms (basically
> not very great).
> According to the linked wiki, Pagure "seems most likely, its (sic) our
> current focus" [6]. However Fedora's Community Platform Engineering
> team recently announced that they will switch to GitLab themselves [7].
> As far as I understand, CPE basically maintained the project and hosted
> a public setup at pagure.io. They "offer it [Pagure] to the community
> to maintain" which leaves the future in a somewhat unclear state.
>
> To conclude, I believe we should choose one of Gerrit and GitLab and
> have a trial to see if the processes can be carried over. (If not, we
> can still give the other platform a try.)

IIRC, Gerrit was not really tracking issues and thus would be a fill-in
rather just for the Rietveld part of our current setup rather than also
covering the SourceForge angle.  Do I remember wrong here?

> I'd propose we kind of vote, so please reply with your thoughts.
>
> Jonas
>
> P.S. I tried to keep my opinion out of the above. I'll also "vote", but
> probably tomorrow to not be the first :)
>
>
> 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg00408.html
> 2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-03/msg00338.html
> 3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg00249.html
> 4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg01114.html
> 5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg01134.html
> 6: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation
> 7: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/making-a-git-forge-decision/
>

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David Kastrup