Another option to consider would be to use BitBucket. I have pushed almost all of the magnolia git repositories to bitbucket without any issues. Has this been considered before?
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Grégory Joseph < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jörg, > > Of course we considered it - years ago, when we migrated to Git. Back > then, it simply did not offer the flexibility and stability we needed. We > were also always planning to mirror our repos to GitHub, which made the > extra features of GitLab&al less important. (that never happened because of > the history of our main repos, where some old huge files have been > committed by accident, and Github prevents committing files over > 50mb-or-so, for good reasons) > > It is definitely worth reinvestigating today, after it’s matured so much. > It has however quite some competition, among others with Atlassian’s stash. > We *are* doing exactly that. > > FYI, we already have all the feature you’re mentioning below, minus the > pull/merge requests, with Gitolite, except we do expect users to have some > familiarity with the terminal. I still totally agree that something like > Gitlab would make contributions easier. > > Cheers, > > -greg > > > > On 19 May 2014, at 10:57, Jörg von Frantzius <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd just like to ask the Magnolians whether you have ever considered > using https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce/ instead of the basic Git web > interface that is currently offered at http://git.magnolia-cms.com/gitweb/? > > > > Being the open source clone of Github, it's got a lot of nice features > that IMHO would make live easier and more comfortable: > > • user administration, groups > > • forking repositories > > • merge requests > > • branch protection (e.g. only selected users / groups can commit > to master) > > • commenting on commits > > • elaborate diff views > > • easily create and share git repositories from the web interface > (no need for manual command line intervention) > > This could make it more inviting for others to contribute patches or new > features, or create Magnolia related projects that currently ended up on > Github (because it is so much more convenient than the basic Git web > interface). > > > > And by the way, maybe you could consider using > https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.xiplink.jira.git.jira_git_pluginfor > showing Git commits in JIRA issues? > > > > Best regards, > > Jörg > > > > > -- > > Dipl.-Inf. Jörg von Frantzius, Systems Architect > > > > Email mailto:[email protected] > > > > Fax +49 30 283921-29 > > > > Aperto AG - In der Pianofabrik > > Chausseestraße 5, D-10115 Berlin-Mitte > > http://www.aperto.de > > http://www.facebook.com/aperto > > https://www.xing.com/companies/apertoag > > > > HRB 77049, AG Berlin Charlottenburg > > Vorstand: Dirk Buddensiek (Vorsitzender), Kai Großmann, Stephan Haagen, > Daniel Simon > > Aufsichtsrat: Bernd Hardes (Vorsitzender) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > For list details, see > http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html > > Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ > > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > For list details, see > http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html > Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Thanks and Regards, /Thomas Joseph LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ethomasjoseph Twitter: http://twitter.com/ethomasjoseph ------------------------------------------------------------ Promote Open Source - Promote Liberty of Ideas and Software. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details, see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
