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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@l.g.o>
Cc: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Repo mirror & CI: official statement wrt GitHub
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:15:01
Message-Id: CAGfcS_mdkw_YuO3Z1BXMxgRY7w=A6ZX0Ad4ZEoGsMwjUfaN4XQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Repo mirror & CI: official statement wrt GitHub by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 5:58 PM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > So I'd suggest we either are convinced that our packaging actually makes
4 > sense, and use it, or we close shop.
5 >
6
7 Perhaps it makes more sense for linked binaries than for scripts or
8 java (ie, 99% of web hosting)?
9
10 In any case, the solution we're using today is Github, which also
11 doesn't run on Gentoo and is proprietary, because nobody can be
12 bothered to deal with getting Gitlab to run on Gentoo. It seems like
13 at least moving to something that could conceivably be self-hosted on
14 any distro (perhaps even Gentoo) would be an improvement.
15
16 However, as others have pointed out Gitlab apparently needs fairly
17 frequent updates. So, it is something that would require a bit of
18 care. That would be an argument for hosting it on an
19 upstream-recommended platform that actually gets updates if we want to
20 host it ourselves. If we had a long line of people willing to keep
21 everything up to date on Gentoo that would be one thing, but right now
22 it isn't even packaged, which doesn't speak well for rapid security
23 updates.
24
25 I guess in the meantime we can just stick with Github...
26
27 --
28 Rich