[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Looking at Gitolite Replacements

[Jason Stephenson]

Hi, all.

I spent some time this morning looking at potential replacements for 
gitolite (see: 
https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:2017_new_tools). I made a 
number of edits to the dokuwiki page about it, most of which I 
subsequently deleted.

I had set up a gitlab test vm at CW MARS and some staff poked at it but 
for the most part, no one had time to really look at it. It basically 
got good reviews for what little it was used.

This morning, I created two local VMs on my laptop to test gitlab 
(again) and Phabricator (https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/).

My conclusions are that Phabricator is difficult to install on a modern 
Ubuntu as even their Ubuntu-specific instructions leave you with a bunch 
of errors to correct. (The quick install script only support Ubuntu 
10.04!) While Phabricator looks like it has some interesting features, I 
can't recommend it because I gave up on installing it.

I think if we're serious about moving away from our current 
configuration, then we should either choose gitlab or set up a serious 
multi-user test site for gitlab so we can see how work flows, etc., will 
change as a result.

Jason