On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:42 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 03:39, Felix Schwarz <fschw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > Am 01.10.19 um 16:55 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: > > > Then there are problems with budgets and figuring out what exactly it > > > would cost. We fall outside of many of the 'caveats' that would allow > > > us to get free. > > > > IIRC at the time when Fedora evaluated its options the open source version > > of > > Gitlab was more limited than today. AFAIK Debian + FreeDesktop developers > > worked with Gitlab Inc. and finally succeeded in getting necessary features > > included in the open source version. > > > > If the evaluation was done today and there were no Pagure I suspect Fedora > > would use gitlab as well. > > > > (I'm also wondering if Fedora writes too much custom infrastructure when > > there > > are "open core" offerings which might provide more features - e.g. Gitlab > > instead of Pagure, sentry instead of abrt. But I'm aware of limited > > ressources > > and I trust my fellow Fedorians with their judgement.) > > > > One of the goals many early Fedora participants had was that Fedora > was to be an incubator for open source software which isn't available > as FLOSS elsewhere. The issue though is that software does not spring > up instantly from the head of Zeus fully formed. It takes years and a > lot of effort. Other things can overtake what you are working on and > just be so much larger and bigger than what is now. It can also be > that what communities want changes faster than it takes for the > software to be written. >
For those that might have forgotten, Ansible is a fantastic success story from those principles (It started as a fedorahosted project called func). It took a while for it to take off, but it did. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
