Hello, > On Dec 17, 2015, at 23:07, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Suppose we got a much bigger server and had people to run it well. > Would running GitBucket on Savannah make sense?
IMHO running "GitBucket" in its current form/features does not make sense for Savannah, for the following reasons: 1. GNU Savannah has some unique hosting requirements that are not shared by other hosting services (or frameworks like GitBucket): New projects must be reviewed and approved, can not be deleted, and arbitrary duplication of projects (a.k.a "forking") is not allowed, and requiring clear distinction between gnu and non-gnu projects (including URL redirections and such). 2. Many of the features provided by GitBucket are already provided by Savannah: git, http(s) and ssh protocol access (both read-write and anonymous read-only). user management, web-based repository viewers Other features are not necessarily features we want on Savannah (private repositories, forks, wikis, activity timeslines per developer, gravatar, plugins). Many of the additional features provided by GitBucket over today's savannah features are web-based niceties, likely requiring a modern web-browser and javascript to function. 3. GitBucket is written in Java, and their developers do not seem committed to ensure it runs on free Java implementations. regards, - assaf
