On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:42 pm, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
What really worries to me is that:
* using GitLab as SaaS is being considered, and
* for self-hosting, using the proprietary "enterprise" editions is not
excluded.
I think that using anything other than Free Software as the hosting
platform
for Fedora should be an absolute no go. In other words, self-hosted
GitLab
CE or Pagure, no other options.
Very rare for me to say this, but: I agree with Kevin.
As I see it, the Fedora community was not interested in GitHub because
it's not open source. It seemed like we all agreed on that, and I
assume Council communicated that to CPE. Now, GitLab Community Edition
(GitLab CE) is open source (and high-quality), but it seems almost
certain that the plan is to use GitLab Enterprise Edition (GitLab EE).
Although CPE says they continue to evaluate which edition will used and
how it will be hosted, the identified requirements clearly cannot be
satisfied by GitLab CE.
Some failure of process or communication must have occurred somewhere
along the lines, because open source should have been the first and
most important requirement. A proprietary software solution is
incompatible with the ethos and purpose of the Fedora project. I ask
CPE to revise its requirements list to include open source as the first
and most important requirement from the Fedora community. If that's
incompatible with CentOS's need for merge request approvals or whatever
else, then we need to accept that sharing the same forge is simply not
going to work.
If open source is really not going to be a requirement, then we can ask
Council to politely reject CPE's offer to continue hosting our forge,
and instead round up some budget to keep Pagure running without help
from CPE.
Michael
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