[Board] Travis-CI & OSGeo

[Jeffrey Johnson]

How bout we just use what the folks writing the code want to use
rather than being so militant about things?

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 7:13 AM, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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