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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Gitlab.com as the primary git entry point for Sourcemage
  • Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:02:26 -0500



On 09/05/2015 07:00 PM, David Kowis wrote:
> I've set up https://gitlab.com/groups/SourceMage and mirrored all the
> git repos we've got right now, with some slight name changes to handle
> the single namespace.
>
> I'm proposing that we use gitlab.com as our primary git entry point for
> a couple reasons:
>
> 1. This should help increase our visibility. Maybe not quite as much as
> if it were on github.com (which we can also put mirrors on, but not be
> the primary). I chose gitlab, because they have a legitimately open
> source version, gitlab community edition, which we could run ourselves,
> if we wanted/needed to.
>
> 2. This makes it easier to allow people to contribute to all the things.
> The pull request model is extremely powerful and prevalent in almost
> every open source project. This commonality helps lower the barrier to
> entry.
>
> Any objections to doing this? Nothing else changes. We will have
> sufficient automated backups, either by a scripted pull, or some API
> calls and webhooks to keep it backed up, so we don't lose any code
> should Gitlab die a horrible death and take everything with them.
>

It's been a week, I've seen no (I think?) objection to doing this yet.
Without objection, I plan on doing it next weekend.

--
David Kowis

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