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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Moving servicesRe: Moving services
From: Amaury Pouly via rockbox-dev <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 14:54:49 +1000 I think we should take a decision and act on it. Currently gerrit is half-broken and the build system not working. So either we switch or we fix it. Amaury 2017-04-25 1:30 GMT+10:00 Mike via rockbox-dev <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>: > I've used both GitHub and gitlab. Both work well enough. I'm not sure > what the code review options are like however. > > Personally I'm not too attached to gerrit. I found using it relatively > confusing, but I think it's a good idea to at least have some kind of git > integrated patch tracker. > > Mike > ------------------------------ > *From:* rockbox-dev <rockbox-dev-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se> on behalf of Frank > Gevaerts via rockbox-dev <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se> > *Sent:* Monday, April 24, 2017 2:24:12 AM > *To:* rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se > *Cc:* Frank Gevaerts > *Subject:* Re: Moving services > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:23:40PM +0200, Björn Stenberg via rockbox-dev > wrote: > > Hello all patient devs. > > > > I'm thinking this might be a good time to grab the bull by the horns and > do what has needed doing for quite some time: Move parts of our > infrastructure away from having me as a project bottleneck. > > I agree. We need to do something, and I think we need to move to an > external hosting system. We do not have the manpower to manage our own > any more. I'm aware of a few hosting providers, which all have > advantages and disadvantages. I'll list what I can come up with (in no > particular order). Feel free to add what you know! > > Github: > * "everyone" knows how to use it, a lot of tutorials online > * Closed source > * Some people dislike the standard github workflow > > Gitlab: > * Less known than github > * "Open core". Unclear to me how much of what they run is actually open. > * Some people dislike the standard gitlab workflow > * I can't find hosted projects or information about open source hosting > on their website. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place, but they > seem *heavily* oriented towards selling private instances and not so > much towards "community hosting" > * Not the best reliability track record > > Sourceforge: > * Yes, they still exist, and they do git these days > > Launchpad: > * They do git hosting (https://help.launchpad.net/Code/Git) > * Even the launchpad home page (https://launchpad.net/) isn't aware > that they do git hosting. > > Frank > > -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > Received on 2017-05-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |