Clement Verna <cve...@fedoraproject.org> writes: > Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Clement Verna <cve...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> >> As for Pagure itself, I think this is where we fundamentally >> disagree. I think it behooves us to own and provide an experience >> tailored for our community from beginning to end. That's why we have >> Koji, Bodhi, Dist-Git, and many other tools in that part of the >> lifecycle. The packager experience is literally the lifeblood of the >> project, and our contributors are the core of what makes Fedora >> successful. Pagure gives us an opportunity to do right by them that I >> *really* don't think we can do with any alternatives. > > I am not convinced that having a custom git forge is mandatory to > provide an great experience to the community. I wasn't really around > the community before Pagure, but I as far as I understand it the > experience was better before Pagure and people were able to do more > self servicing. I believe that there is an alternative to having the > packager workflow tightly coupled to the git forge, this is also maybe > a good opportunity to rethink some of that workflow and explore > different solutions.
Well, this continues to conflate "git forge" and "solution for dist-git". Before pagure, we had a (no-webui) git serving dist-git with other services (e.g., pkgdb) stapled on. More self-servicing was possible because it was a more mature project. In my opinion, the move to pagure happened prematurely due to lack of feature parity - a problem we're still dealing with today, which I think is what your "self servicing" is in reference to. Before pagure, we also had fedorahosted, which was our solution for hosting projects, combining trac and a few other things. Migration was *painful*, and there have been many rocky parts along the way, but the experience now is definitely better than fedorahosted. It's far less pleasant than a github project, though. My impression is that most folks on this thread are more worried about dist-git and its integrations than a general git forge, while it feels like all CPE wants to talk about is the git forge. You can't just use a git forge as a dist-git: it takes a lot of integration work, which is invisible because right now it's been done and just works™. The refusal to consider that this work exists in the decision worries me. So long as it's open and we host it, I don't personally care what we choose - as long as we can actually use it. Thanks, --Robbie
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