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<p>Hi Guido -</p>
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<p> Earlier this year, while building the OSGeo-Live, I noticed a few more
projects moving to Github dot com.</p>
<p>I made a few statements at the time amounting to "it is a fundmental
responsibility of a FOSS dot-org </p>
<p>to keep internal infrastructure independent of commercial vendor front ends"
and the like. This was met</p>
<p>with mixed responses, and in one case outright hostility. However, I believe
some resonate with the </p>
<p>msg, too.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sandro started the GOGS service and vastly improved the internal docs:</p>
<p> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Git_Service</p>
<p> </p>
<p>To answer the question "What are other large FOSS dot-orgs current
best-practices ?" </p>
<p>I researched a LOT about other large dot-orgs' backends here :</p>
<p> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GitHostingSoftware</p>
<p> </p>
<p>--</p>
<p> To my mind it is as a naive statement to say "is everyone going to Github
dot com" as saying</p>
<p>"people are voting for Hillary Clinton" .. it is not at all settled, and each
group has its own context.</p>
<p> But yes, plenty of OSGeo projects are deep in Github, including the big
ones.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> The reasoning and rationale for using a git front-end like Github changes,
but it is probably safe to </p>
<p>say that solid ticketing and custom previews of GeoJSON and the like, are
addictive and do make daily </p>
<p>work easier / fun. It is obvious that one contender for Github replacement,
GOGS, is a clone of Github,</p>
<p>down to the page names, fonts and colors.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> With all this said, I will repeat to anyone willing to listen, that I
believe it is essential and a responsibility</p>
<p>of a FOSS dot org like OSGeo to maintain critical infrastructure on FOSS
stacks, run by the </p>
<p>OSGeo admins. Git being git, projects can use what they choose to do
work.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> best regards from Berkeley, California</p>
<p> --Brian M Hamlin</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>PS- subversion is technically flawed regarding the checksum of contents..
such that it is no longer </p>
<p>secure to keep master copies in subversion.</p>
<p><br>On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:58:16 +0000, Guido Stein
<guido@guidostein.com> wrote:</p>
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<p>Is github where projects amd chapters are going?</p>
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<p>I think non-ssh sign in is a bit insecure, no?</p>
<p>Thanks for your feedback.</p>
<p>Guido</p>
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<div>On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, 09:38 Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Guido: I've created a '<a href="http://2017.foss4g.org" target="_blank">2017.foss4g.org</a>' repository there, please login<br> and let
me know your user ID, and I will add you to the team.
-jeff<br><br><br><br><br> On 2016-09-06 10:32 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br> >
Hi Guido,<br> ><br> > Actually we are already using this for FOSS4G
(please login here and let<br> > me know when you have, and let me know your
user id, and then I can add<br> > you to the 'foss4g' team). <a href="https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g/" target="_blank">https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g/</a><br> ><br> > Right
now there are only 2 repositories ('<a href="http://foss4g.org" target="_blank">foss4g.org</a>' for that main<br> > landing page of logos,
and '<a href="http://video.foss4g.org" target="_blank">video.foss4g.org</a>'), but I could create a<br> > '<a href="http://2017.foss4g.org" target="_blank">2017.foss4g.org</a>' repository for you. Let me know.<br>
><br> > -jeff<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > On 2016-09-06 10:24 AM,
Guido Stein wrote:<br> >> When will ssh be added to this service? When
will this service be an<br> >> official non test?<br> >><br>
>> Just trying it out and had some questions.<br> >><br> >>
Thanks for all your efforts.<br> >><br> >> -Guido<br> >><br>
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:37 AM Sandro Santilli <<a href="mailto:strk@keybit.net" target="_blank">strk@keybit.net</a><br> >>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:strk@keybit.net" target="_blank">strk@keybit.net</a>>> wrote:<br> >><br> >>
On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 07:56:02PM -0400, Tom Kralidis wrote:<br>
>> ><br> >> > Anyone have any idea/feedback on
the scope/scale? Are we<br> >> > looking for a full fledged
web/SCM env, or something as an<br> >> > alternative to keep
lighter weight repositories, etc.?<br> >><br> >> I think for
a start it would be useful to have something that<br> >> allows us
to keep system configurations in private repositories,<br> >> like
this: <a href="https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-config" target="_blank">https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-config</a><br>
>><br> >> I did start keeping more configs under local gits
on the trac/svn<br> >> machine but didn't push it yet to the
SCM.<br> >><br> >> We could also use Gogs to more easily
manage operational tickets,<br> >> creating issue-only
repositories for operational purposes, like:<br> >> <a href="https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-service" target="_blank">https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-service</a><br>
>><br> >> That said, Gogs is in alpha stage and its
development is very<br> >> active. I still don't have a sense of
how many features are<br> >> missing that are really important for
OSGeo projects and would<br> >> like to know. The <a href="https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-service" target="_blank">https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-service</a><br>
>> repo might serve that purpose (see Issues).<br> >><br>
>> --strk;<br> >
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