Re: Github mirror and archive

[Marco van Zwetselaar]

Forgot to mention the obvious: the rationale for the below is my desire
to unchain from GitHub.


On 07/04/17 10:26, Marco van Zwetselaar wrote:
> On 06/04/17 12:53, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>> ** Going off github
> I've been running GitLab self-hosted since December and find it a fine
> alternative.
>
> Their installation instructions try hard to scare you away from
> self-hosting and installation from source, but I think that's more to
> keep non-sysadmins from shooting themselves in the foot than it is to do
> with inherent complexity.
>
> A guix package[1] of course would be the bee's knees. :)
>
> GitLab's OAuth2 authentication and GitHub (and other) import facilities
> ease integration with those clinging to their GitHub or other 'social'
> accounts.
>
> Zwets
>
> [1] I've been dying to make one as I'm stuck at GitLab 8.14 due to
> version dependencies in 8.15+ that aren't in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.  My
> servers run Ubuntu LTS, with Guix for out-of-distro packages.  I lack
> the time and guixperience to do this right now but will gladly share
> notes and help out if someone takes this on.
>
>