[Board] Travis-CI & OSGeo

[María Arias de Reyna]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 05:46:12PM -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
>> I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t want to provide this for OSGeo projects.
>
> I do: we'd be an OpenSource Software Foundation paying a ClosedSource
> Software Company to keep being successful in their business model.
>
> Compare that to giving money to community members willing to provide
> build agents to the existing OSGeo build infrastructure (drone.osgeo.org).
>
> See https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Drone
>
> Me and Regina are currently the only ones providing build agents.
>
> Or also, compare that to paying the external service to someone
> who puts the service code out there as open source, for example
> Drone developer himself ( https://drone.io/pricing/ ) or gitlab
> people ( https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ ).
>
> Or also, to paying sysadmin teams to build these things in-house.
>
> What's been asked here is to pay for what is really just marketing:
> showing that "OSGeo has a good presence on GitHub", as if doing so
> makes it a _serious_ OpenSource player. This is surrendering to
> GitHub marketing stating "where software is built!". Are we paying
> to be marketing agents ?
>

You make a good point. Should we reinforce Gitlab then and try to find
a similar service for our projects? How will moving to Gitlab impact
our projects?