On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:09 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, I have a question for the FESCo and Council candidates: do you > support allowing Fedora src-git repositories to be hosted on > gitlab.com, which a proprietary software git forge? > > Fedora Council has already effectively stated that dist-git > infrastructure must remain open source, but has no such promises for > src-git. I understand Council has previously stated that Fedora > infrastructure should depend on proprietary software only if no open > source alternative is suitable. Do you believe that there exist no open > source git forges that would be suitable for Fedora src-git? > > The most obvious open source alternative would be the open source > version of GitLab. There is also Pagure. I think we're giving up on > open source infrastructure rather quickly here. I'd like to know what > the candidates think before voting. > > Context: > https://pagure.io/fedora-source-git/sig/issue/1 > https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-council-and-the-git-forge/ > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure Packit developer and Source-git SIG member here, joining two days late to this thread. One important thing to call out: the source-git workflow is not officially adopted by the Fedora Community. All the work that is ongoing in this space is experimentation and custom tooling developed to support select packages. Yes, we (the Packit team) have a goal to propose to the Community to adopt the workflow as an alternative way of doing packaging work and allow source-git repositories to be hosted within Fedora realms, but that proposal has not been written yet. To have a better, less fragmented developer experience, lower maintenance and administration costs, and to ensure Community control over them, I think it would make sense to host official source-git repositories next to dist-git repos, in a sibling namespace, and be served by the same Git-forge. But this becomes important if and when the workflow becomes official. Before that, as Zbyszek wrote, experimentation could happen anywhere. The discussion on the source-git SIG issue was just about that: where should experimental source-git repositories be hosted. As someone working on source-git, I would like to see the Fedora Community to have a clear decision about which Git-forge to use for canonical sources and to support in the long run. Currently I’m seeing mixed signals, and this makes longer term planning somewhat more difficult. Source-git requirements might be considered in making such a decision, but I don't see them as the main driving force. Hunor _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
