Re: [gentoo-dev] Value of Continuous integration vs Code Review / Pull Requests

[Alec Warner]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:44 AM Mathy Vanvoorden <mathy@××××××××××.be> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry I'm a bit late to the party here but was behind on my emails.
>
> Op wo 27 mei 2020 om 05:25 schreef Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>:
>
>> The TL;DR is that a crack team of infra-folks[0] have been putting
>> together demos of CI services and things like gitlab / gitea / gerrit and
>> so on.
>>
>>
> I didn't see in the email chain any mention of the Atlassian tools. Can
> these be considered? They offer free licenses for open source projects and
> I think that most of the requirements are covered by BitBucket
> (repo-hosting, repo-serving, code review and pull requests) and Bamboo (CI).
>

I inquired about this generally on the nfp list in May:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/0142bac838ed7cb356e58447c6ee20b0

The conclusion was that the software needed to be released under an open
license (preferably FSF / OSI approved.) So for example, Gitlab CE is OK
(its an OSI approved licensed) but Gitlab EE is not. The source for Gitlab
EE is open (I can go read it) but it's not freely available.


>
> If desired I can setup a demo and/or help maintain the tools, this is my
> day job and for those who care about these kind of things I am Atlassian
> certified.
>
> Here is more info on their licensing for Open Source projects:
>
> https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request
>

My understanding is that this is a binary-own download that, once
installed, we can request a license to use. We won't have the source code
at all and the license is not free. I don't think it's possible for us to
use this software in Gentoo for this reason.

-A


>
> br,
> Mathy
>