I suppose I'll open this thread under -architecture; since this is
really a policy decision.
Hey List,
At the moment, our fork of the opkg project is using a legacy Google
Group as its primary mailing list [1].
Google Groups has been abandoned by Google for years. It is not being
updated and the only projects which exist there have been grandfathered
in. Subscribing to the list is difficult. You either have to link your
Google account - which most posters aren't going to want to do. Or you
must send an email to an undocumented plus-extension for the list. And
the whole process is generally obsolescent and off-putting, even for
experienced devs.
So I'd like to move opkg-development discussion somewhere else. At a
minimum, it seems reasonable to move discussion to one of the OE lists,
since the vast majority of contributors are on that list as well. But I
can also see it being confusing that we are mixing discussions between
the opkg project itself, and the opkg/OE recipes.
How are other Yocto subprojects like this handled?
Alternatively, I think it would make sense to move the project to a
modern SCM implementation - like gitlab - where we can consolidate PRs,
issues, and the codebase. As much as I'm comfortable using the
email+gitolite+bugzilla workflow, it doesn't make the project very
appealing to the newer developer generations.
And I have to admit that my corporate IT department makes it as annoying
as possible to use mailing lists: changing subject lines, changing urls,
writing into the email body, blocking and swallowing ML emails as
spam... While that's a me-problem, it is also an increasingly-prevalent
us-problem for those who are contributing from corps.
Do we have a gitlab solution within the Yocto project? Or has there been
any discussion on this topic among the Yocto steering mindshare?
[1] https://groups.google.com/g/opkg-devel
Thanks,
--
Alex Stewart
Software Engineer - NI Real-Time OS
NI (National Instruments)
[email protected]
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