[Board] Travis-CI & OSGeo

[Tim Sutton]

Hi



> On 23 Apr 2018, at 16:14, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How bout we just use what the folks writing the code want to use
> rather than being so militant about things?

+1…as project leader for GDAL, Even should be given the freedom to manage his project infrastructure in a way that is comfortable for him….I think it is an overreach to require him to retool his entire workflow.

Regards

Tim


> 
> 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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