On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote: > Opening a new thread... > > Git without Github is like sex without a partner, sufficient but not very > satisfactory. Github option has been explored in the past, and due to > various reasons, it was not possible to achieve. > > But, during my last 2-3 year absence, has the GitLab[1] option been > discussed and/or tried? GitLab is open sourced, can run on our infra and > has many of the essential features of Github. > But perhaps people are satisfied enough with the Github mirroring that is > already in place, but with GitLab in house, we could (in theory) add > features around licensing (like ICLA style assurance, similar to Jira), and > non-committers could(!) be allowed a direct route to the horse's mouth... > > Although the Enterprise system cost money, my guess is that GitLab would be > happy to waive fees and give us access to EE. > > > Just a thought. > > [1] https://about.gitlab.com/features/ > > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java
Infrastructure (at least in the short term) won't deploy Gitlab. The reasoning is this: 1. Most of our demand from projects is for Github, and truthfully, if we could resolve one or two nagging problems, Infra would love to no longer run and administer several hundred git repositories and instead offload that work to Github. 2. There is a lot of infrastructure built up around the existing git infrastructure. Deploying Gitlab or Allura or anything else would require us to figure out authorization, backups, integration with Github, Jira, BZ, svn mirroring, etc; that's a lot of work. IF we were going to tackle such a project it would need to be for all projects, not just a few, and it would be significantly lower on the priority list than a lot of the work we are currently doing. My current thinking (though not yet Foundation policy) is that there is the canonical repository must be managed by Infra, and I suspect that will be in the proposed policy that gets submitted to the board. --David
