Hi,
1) I'm not sure to understand Heptapod way of working. Is this a native
Mercurial based system or Git based system with a hg-git layer ?
2) Here
https://dev.heptapod.net/slides/2019-hg-paris/blob/branch/default/presentation.rst
one can read
"""
The Next Phase: Hg + Gitaly
Starting now!
Gitaly: abstraction layer for internal Git access
Development of a Mercurial version
No more hg-git
much faster
catching up onto current GitLab
"""
Can you elaborate (I was not at the Mercurial conference) ?
Nicolas
Le 29/08/2019 à 15:09, Georges Racinet a écrit :
Hi Pierre,
(quoting you out of order, I hope you don't mind)
On 8/26/19 11:01 PM, PIERRE AUGIER wrote:
I can start a list of requirements for academics and open-source
community projects (like PyPy or Mercurial :-)
0. Real Mercurial support (phases, evolve, topics, ...)
(...)
The friendly fork of Gitlab https://heptapod.net/ seems very
interesting. A very nice advantage is that Gitlab is the solution
chosen by many academic institutions (for example my university :-).
It is well known so Heptapod won't afraid people used to Github or
Gitlab. And many "side services" (like https://codecov.io/) could
just work out of the box.
Indeed Heptapod fulfills a good lot of the requirements on your list
already, and we have good hopes for some of the others (e.g.,
continuous integration). What we don't have right now is this:
1. A free-of-charge-for-basic-service website
The free-of-charge website is really important for students, "small"
projects and academics. For example, as a teacher/researcher, I can't
spend time to set up a server and an instance of ??? (it's really not
my job, I don't know how to do it and I don't have time to learn
this). It's important to be able to tell to students/colleagues that
they can very easily create a personal account and their own
repositories just with few clicks
All that makes sense. What we can do at this point is
* provide access to people that want to try Heptapod on one of
Octobus' instances
* provide some support to sysadmins (like your university's) that want
to setup an instance – you can tell them it's almost identical to
plain GitLab Docker install, by the way.
As for actually starting a free-of-charge instance, we don't need much
more than to tighten a few bolts and screws on the technical side.
However, we'd need trusted volunteers to help with basic
administration and moderation, together with a way to compensate the
raw hosting costs once it's taken off.
To summarize, that looks to me like it's achievable before BitBucket
shuts down the creation of new repositories if enough people join us
in the meanwhile.
Regards,
--
Georges Racinet
https://octobus.net
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