Re: poll: switching our development platform

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 9:15 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.)
> I'd propose we kind of vote, so please reply with your thoughts.

I am in favor of Gerrit, but I see no showstopper problems with Gitlab.

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