Re: [GMG-Devel] Gitorious aquired by Gitlab

[Dave Crossland]

On 4 Apr 2015 3:57 am, "Andrés Muñiz Piniella" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> El 8 de marzo de 2015 15:00:56 GMT+00:00, fr33domlover <address@hidden> escribió:
> >Hello,
> >
> >
> >On 2015-03-05
> >Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> Indeed, we will need to figure out a solution.  I'm bummed out a bit
> >> that we have to do another move so soon, but at least this one will
> >be
> >> easier.
> >>
> >> I think I can't make the decision on where we move to alone... we
> >need
> >> community help and input on what to do.
> >>
> >>  - Kallithea: I'd love to make a move here, but I think it's not
> >quite
> >>    ready yet?  But maybe I'm wrong.  We could be an "early adopter"
> >of
> >>    the project.  It does have inline code reviews and etc, which
> >would
> >>    be nice.  It doesn't have issue tracking, but we already have our
> >own
> >>    issue tracker.
> >>  - Gitlab: "It's mostly free software"(?), but the version on
> >gitlab.com is
> >>    not, so we'd need a different host.
> >>  - Notabug.org: https://notabug.org/ Runs on Gogs, a code hosting
> >>    platform in Go.
> >>  - Savannah: I'm less than enthused about going the Savannah
> >>    route... I'm glad that the GNU project provides it, but it
> >>    looks pretty dated.
>
> Would this fork be better?
>
> https://fusionforge.org/projects/fusionforge/

I think all these suffer the same fundamental problems as gitorious, merely differing in their implementation details (language choice, current features, current default page design, etc) FusionForge is nice for people who were already using a sourceforge fork, but I don't think its compelling at all for new projects.

I think fossil-scm is a fundamental solution to the problem.

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> >>  - Self-hosting git with gitweb and gitosis:
> >>    This is the most "bare bones" type of hosting, but it requires the
> >>    most sysadmin-heavy handling of things, and leaves no "easy" way
> >for
> >>    contributors new to git to make a branch.
> >>  - Self-hosting with something else:
> >>    I'd be happy to pool resources with some other projects to handle
> >>    community-based hosting.
> >>  - Something else?
> >>
> >> What to do?  I'd love feedback/help.
> >>  - Chris
> >
> >
> >NotABug is a good free-as-in-freedom alternative: It runs Gogs (free
> >software)
> >and is dedicated to free software projects. You can talk to the people
> >behind
> >it in ##freepost @ FreeNode, or at http://freepo.st .
> >
> >I think the three freedom supporting options are NAB, self-hosting and
> >GNU
> >Savannah.
> >
> >By the way I think - not sure - there's a way in Gitolite to allow
> >people to
> >create new branches. But it's probably too simple to be friendly, and
> >as you
> >add features it becomes easier to just use one of the bigger systems.
> >
> >While NotABug currently doesn't have merge requests (you can submit
> >them
> >"manually" as tickets), I believe GNU MediaGoblin will be very welcome
> >there.
> >It will hopefully be implemenetd soon (the Gogs suftware itself doesn't
> >have
> >them yet).
> >
> >Gogs in general has the advantage of being lightweight - it's written
> >in Go,
> >i.e. compiled. Especially for self hosting, i.e. small number of repos,
> >it
> >probably makes a bigger difference (when you have 1000s of repos, then
> >the
> >difference probably becomes less significant).
> >
> >Another option that exists: Gitbucket. Written in Scala. They don't
> >provide
> >hosting; it's just the software.
> >
> >
> >
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