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Subject: Re: Moving services

Re: Moving services

From: Matthew Kelch via rockbox-dev <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:53:07 +0000

Inkscape has just moved from bazaar to gitlab.com. You can read about it
here: https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

I think of all the options GitLab.com is what I would pick. In my
experience it’s challenging for open source projects to maintain their own
infrastructure (both because of cost and time). Using a hosted solution
solves that issue completely. It’s also a mostly open source project with
an easy migration path to a self-hosted product, unlike GitHub.

GitLab isn’t perfect, but out of all the existing solutions out there, I
think it’s the best. Their vision for end to end development workflow makes
the most sense. In particular I’m really a big fan of the integrated CI
approach GitLab has adopted. I’ve also been really impressed with how
quickly they’ve been moving in terms of feature development lately.

Thanks,
Matt

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:08 AM Jacob Mansfield via rockbox-dev <
rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:

> On 1 June 2017 at 23:17, Amaury Pouly via rockbox-dev <
> rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just for information, I plan to delete the gitlab's rockbox clone. For
>> some reason, it seems to make gitlab eats all the server's memory (a
>> 'known' problem it appears). If anyone with Gitlab experience has a
>> solution for this, I am interested. Otherwise it's clearly a big negative
>> point for Gitlab for me.
>>
>
>
> That's an interesting issue, I haven't seen that one on any of the
> instances I manage. If you want, I can take a look (probably best to take
> that off-list).
>
> I had a go at setting up Gitlab.com with a clone of the rockbox repo, and
> got the full commit and branch history in without much trouble. I also set
> it up to build the SDL version using Gitlsb's CI system and a Docker image.
> Had a crack at the Archos ones as well, but that needs a bit more time
> throwing at it. I haven't looked at moving the issues/bugs across, but that
> shouldn't be too much trouble.
>
> It's available at https://gitlab.com/rockbox-player/rockbox if anyone
> wants to take a look.
>
> Regards,
> Jacob Mansfield
> www.jacobmansfield.co.uk
> _at_KingCyberJacob <https://twitter.com/KingCyberJacob>
>
-- 
*Matthew Kelch*
e: kelchm_at_gmail.com
c: 717-814-9595
Received on 2017-06-13

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