Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Repo mirror & CI: official statement wrt GitHub
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:15:25
Message-Id: 20180611121523.51697E098A@pigeon.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Repo mirror & CI: official statement wrt GitHub by "Michał Górny"
1 It doesn't matter to much for repo hosting itself, although is a vector for issue tracker, wiki etc if things can be exported / backed up that can then be spun up in an own instance. 
2 -------- Original message --------From: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> Date: 6/9/18 09:52 (GMT+01:00) To: gentoo-project@l.g.o Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Repo mirror & CI: official statement wrt GitHub
3 W dniu sob, 09.06.2018 o godzinie 09∶50 +0200, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
4 napisał:
5 > > > > > > On Sat, 09 Jun 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
6 > > To those who believe moving out of GitHub is the only thing to do,
7 > > I would like to remind you of two things. Firstly, if Microsoft
8 > > indeed has malicious intent, then they've already won because you've
9 > > let them fragment the community. Secondly, how do you know that
10 > > GitLab won't be sold to another 'big player' soon enough?
11 >
12 > GitLab is free software though, so one can always host one's own
13 > instance of it. This is not possible with GitHub which is proprietary.
14 >
15
16 ...and how is this relevant when people are moving to gitlab.com rather
17 than their own instance?  Also, isn't GitLab partially proprietary?
18
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20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny