Just ask if Savannah team, or those kindhearted people at FSF, is willing to 
host a GitBucket instance. It have all GitHub features and it is fully open 
source. It seems to me that this is becoming the fastest way that solves the 
most problems...

> On Dec 4, 2015, at 22:39, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Fossil not only implies a self-hosted solution, just as Gitlab does, but it 
> also implies switching to a largely unknown tool.
> 
> If we are happy with a self-hosted solution, I'll state that the thought of 
> offering hosting (and paying for hosting) GNUstep's infrastructure occurred 
> to me -- however it implies taking over sysadmin responsibilities, including 
> responsibility for users' credentials. Less responsibility for third-party 
> data = happier ivucica.
> 
> And I'm also not sure we want to self host. Delegating sysadmin 
> responsibilities is a good thing. But if we do want to run our own 
> infrastructure, I'm happy to offer to set up a nice environment for the 
> contributors (and document what was done along the way). This would be built 
> around Samba4-based authentication database, which conveniently means the 
> possibility of using the same credentials in any tool that can authenticate 
> against LDAP, or even authenticate using Kerberos.
> 
> (And if FSF or some other kind and trusted party has spare hardware capacity, 
> that's even better.)
> 
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:43 AM Xavier Brochard <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Le Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:40:57 +0100,
> Alessandro Sangiuliano <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> a 
> écrit :
> 
> > I think we should see what is the best choice for GNUstep making it
> > to be accessible to users and developers as easy as we can, so:
> >
> > - Github: fork code with a button; start a new repo with a button;
> > easy management of merge request, not so bad in showing diffs;
> > interesting plugins; maybe not so nice in bug tracking; it uses git
> > that is OPEN SOURCE, you are not forced to use its proprietary
> > front-end; it is probably the most used platform to host code; it is
> > full of people; what we need absolutely… people!
> > - I never heard about Gitlab before, so I can’t talk about it.
> > - Savannah: Seems a place where requests take weeks before to be
> > completed; it doesn’t have the Github features in managing repos and
> > projects; it looks a bit abandoned; to contribute to a project a
> > person has to ask for an account and then for  permissions. On github
> > a person can fork the code, contribute to it, then does a merge
> > request and project managers can accept it or just discard it in an
> > easy way.
> >
> 
> What about Fossil ?
> http://fossil-scm.org/ <http://fossil-scm.org/>
> - totally free
> - doesn't need a server
> - can be easily setup on any hosting service
> - everybody can host everything  because all parts are embedded in
>   Fossil (code + website, wiki, tickets, docs, etc.)
> 
> See this comparison with git
> http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki 
> <http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki>
> 
> While first steps in Git may be easier (I personally use Git), Fossil is
> a very good and fast dvcs.
> See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(software) 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(software)>
> 
> Xavier Brochard
> 
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