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Hello, |
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 01:44:00PM +0200, Jonas Jelten wrote: |
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> Ohai! |
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> Phabricator is a fun adventure game: http://phabricator.org/ |
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> It provides a tightly coupled set of project management tools. |
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> Many bigger projects (e.g. blender, mediawiki, ...) started using |
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> phabricator, it could also be very beneficial for gentoo. |
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The website lists "Companies probably using Phabricator", which not a |
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very good for transmitting trust. |
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We've just been through major migrations: moving to git, website |
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migration, etc. We should not forget all the work that has been put into |
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making the current system work for Gentoo, and I have to say, I think that |
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our new website looks really nice, gitweb looks great too, and we have a |
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really large history of bugs on bugzilla, that also has a Gentoo theme. |
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Migrating to something else would be a huge undertaking. That's why, |
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even though I use and like Atlassian tools, I never proposed a migration |
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to JIRA, bitbucket and other tools. If others would like moving to |
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something else, I believe that Atlassian tools are more attractive. |
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Yes, they are a proprietary company, but they do offer free licenses for |
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open source projects that could be hosted on Gentoo Infra. |
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https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request |
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That said, I'm not saying we should move to Atlassian tools, just that |
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it's probably a better option than Phabricator, if such a big migration |
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happens. I think that what we have now is already pretty good. |
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> Migrating would contradict the apparent goal of integrating github more |
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> tightly, but still we could consider to use Phabricator instead, |
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> especially to dump bugzilla. |
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While I'm not particularly against integrating more tightly with GitHub, |
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there is no such goal in Gentoo as far as I can tell. As much as I like |
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GitHub, I do understand the concerns of others about making GitHub |
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essential. It has been blocked before in certain regions of the world, |
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and that's not good for us, regardless of the free vs proprietary |
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debate. I don't think that GitHub is evil or anything, but GitHub is a |
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nice place for extras, to interact with the user community, receive |
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patches, etc. It should not replace our own infra. |
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Cheers, |
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—Guilherme |
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