This topic has just been posted to devtalk.
Given that its importance, it is clear it also belongs here.
First off, apologies for the low rate of public updates on this topic.
This did not reflect the amount of internal discussion and development
that’s gone into this subject both online as well as at the blender studio.
The outcome of the process so far is that we’ve decided is that Gitea is
our platform-of-choice for moving to, away from Phabricator.
There are a fair number of reasons for this and a lot of them have been
voiced in the previous thread here on devtalk, but the general consensus
has also become clear in talks with people we’ve spoken to as well as
what are desired long-term goals and achievements the blender-foundation
wants to work towards.
In a lot of ways, having a fully open-source platform available to us is
something that is seen as both important as well as beneficial to
Blender on the shorter and longer term. And, also importantly, not just
for us.
In the process of exploring options, the first steps have already been
taken towards getting a Gitea setup up and running and contain
meaningful data. More will be coming in the following weeks and I hope
to be able to show something by the middle of next week to the wider
community.
We’ve reached out to the Gitea developers regarding our wish to move
towards their software and are looking forward to explore any
possibilities that’d provide mutual benefit in the form of strengthening
the goals of our communities; building the best open source solution out
there for our users.
As for Blender, the ambition is to have a working, usable, implemented
development-forge running in the course of October. This will not be
easy but seems possible with what we’ve discovered through the work
already performed.
As we work towards that goal, we want to also start producing more
regular updates on where we stand and what our developer-community can
expect. When are there opportunities to help test things, how to provide
feedback (and about what), when will the exact switchover be and how
will that happen, etc.
Expect more about this , soon, as this gets dialed in. Devtalk will be
part of it, for sure.
(ps: bf-committers, too)
–
Arnd
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