Re: Proposal: Switch back to savannah using GIT

[Matt Rice]

Some people can't justify hosting their sources at a 3rd party,
it may not impact GNUstep as a project, but in theory one could modify
the software to allow synchronizing bug reports (they may have this
already I haven't looked)

I wouldn't say savannah is obscure, it just (cant figure out a way to
say it politely) sucks probably as a result of being understaffed,

anyway I prefer gitlab because a) it doesn't suck, b) it at least
provides free software

popularity contests aren't really a priority to me,
github just happened to be the first to this particular race
just stating my preference feel free to have a different one...

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Gregory Casamento
<address@hidden> wrote:
> So, something even more obscure than savannah?
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:46 AM Matt Rice <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Gregory Casamento
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > If the consensus is to move to github, then that work is basically
>> > already
>> > done.   The github mirror is a full mirror of all of the code in
>> > subversion.
>> > I agree with David.  Where we are hosted is extremely important since it
>> > has
>> > everything to do with visibility.
>> >
>> > The only problem I am seeing with moving is that we may lose some
>> > existing
>> > contributors or, at least, piss off some existing contributors if we do
>> > make
>> > a move to github.   Additionally, as one might predict, the FSF doesn't
>> > like
>> > github.   So a move to github not only amounts to a move of repos, but
>> > I'm
>> > afraid it's also the equivalent of a fork which is not something I'm
>> > opposed
>> > to talking about.
>>
>> I tend to side with the FSF in this regard, so I'd prefer something
>> like gitlab which provides hosting, as well as a free software license
>> to the software they use to host...
>>
>> similarly it might not be a bad idea to provide a dns alias to e.g.
>> git.gnustep.org to whomever is chosen to host, though I suppose
>> encryption complicates the matter...