I'm using gitlab already and it really gives you what I like on github Shall we ask the board and SAC for create instance of gitlab on our servers?
J st 30. 9. 2015 v 14:31 odesílatel Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> napsal: > On 30 September 2015 at 07:20, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> > wrote: > > Il 30/09/2015 02:04, Jody Garnett ha scritto: > > > >> I think that the Github move is hazardous. Sure, it is easy, free > >> for open-source projects, and really really cool. Granted, it helps > >> a lot in getting fluid contributions to open-source projects. But > >> ... in two years, they may start shipping sponsors links at the end > >> of the Readme files, and in a moments notice you have to watch 20 > >> seconds ads before cloning. At this point, you will want to bail > >> out, only to find out that in fact you can not, because you can not > >> delete the project anymore, or the issue tracker database can not be > >> exported ... > >> > >> > >> Not much of a problem here, since git means each developer has a copy of > >> the whole project. I know we had the same story with SourceForge ... > > > > I think the concerns about GH are real. I feel uneasy putting strategic > > pieces of infrastructure in the hands of a company is risky over the > > long term. It is true that we have a copy of the whole code base and > > history, but the scenarios suggested are possible and worrisome. > > There is also another aspect of the "All move to GitHub, now!" trend, > less obvious than technical ones, I guess. > > On one side, OSGeo is FOSS advocate and we advocate it loud. > via numerous keynote speaches given at events around the World. > On the other, we gradually move to proprietary infrastructure based > on non-FOSS, namely GitHub. > > The two sides clash, don't they? > People may get confused. > > Best regards, > -- > Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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