With 2.21.0 done, I'd like to restart discussion about switching our
development platform. To recall, we had proposals about using Gerrit
[1] (don't miss follow-ups in March [2]) and GitLab / gitlab.com [3].

Simultaneously the FSF has evaluated different Forge solutions [4],
basically focusing on three tools: Pagure, Gitea, Sourcehut. See [5]
for my evaluation about issue migration to these platforms (basically
not very great).
According to the linked wiki, Pagure "seems most likely, its (sic) our
current focus" [6]. However Fedora's Community Platform Engineering
team recently announced that they will switch to GitLab themselves [7].
As far as I understand, CPE basically maintained the project and hosted
a public setup at pagure.io. They "offer it [Pagure] to the community
to maintain" which leaves the future in a somewhat unclear state.

To conclude, I believe we should choose one of Gerrit and GitLab and
have a trial to see if the processes can be carried over. (If not, we
can still give the other platform a try.)
I'd propose we kind of vote, so please reply with your thoughts.

Jonas

P.S. I tried to keep my opinion out of the above. I'll also "vote", but
probably tomorrow to not be the first :)


1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg00408.html
2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-03/msg00338.html
3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg00249.html
4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg01114.html
5: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg01134.html
6: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation
7: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/making-a-git-forge-decision/

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