On 25/02/18 22:15, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Pocock <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Dashamir, most of the Debian tools are actually running quite well, e.g. > the wiki and Salsa. > > The only thing that is uncertain is a Kanban board / Kanboard. > > If we are unable to get an official Debian.org Kanban instance running > then I volunteer to run an instance on my own server, it is in a data > center, not in my home. I would be happy to run anything that can run > on stretch, including: > > - Kanboard > - Redmine + the Redmine agile plugin[1] > - RT + the plugin as discussed on debian-devel > > - if somebody wants to propose/evaluate something else, please ask > > > I am already proposing to give a try (evaluate) GitHub organizations: > - https://help.github.com/articles/about-organizations/ > I have used them successfully and they are just splendid, like all the > rest of GitHub. > > What's wrong with GitHub? Why people hate it? Just because they are > successful? > Even Google itself deprecated and discontinued its coding infrastructure, > because they realized that GitHub is better. The same for other companies > all over the world (including Microsoft): > - > https://www.wired.com/2015/03/github-conquered-google-microsoft-everyone-else/ > > Of course, if I could have my own infrastructure, I would trust it more than > the infrastructure of GitHub. And also I would trust my own infrastructure > more than the infrastructure of Debian. But guess what? Nobody else would > trust my infrastructure, besides me. >
The specific reasons I offer to host it myself: - if we run one of these things on a debian.org server in future, we can migrate the database from my server very easily - it gives us an opportunity to evaluate the software > Between the infrastructure of Debian and that of GitHub I would certainly > trust more the infrastructure of GitHub. It is more reliable, more secure, > it is much better (feature wise), more robust, more available, etc. > It is also free (no price), open-source friendly, imposes on me no rules > or restrictions (I hate the dictatorship of the communities), etc. > > And hey, if NSA can infiltrate GitHub, they can certainly infiltrate Debian > much more easy. So GitHub is also more trust-worthy for me. > Did you already make a decision about coming to the Bug Squashing Party? It may be easier to talk about this in person. Regards, Daniel
