Jonas Hahnfeld <[email protected]> writes: > 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.)
IIRC, Gerrit was not really tracking issues and thus would be a fill-in rather just for the Rietveld part of our current setup rather than also covering the SourceForge angle. Do I remember wrong here? > 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/ > -- David Kastrup
