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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
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