[gdal-dev] brainstorming: moving away from github?

[Even Rouault]

Le 17/06/2026 à 15:29, Sandro Santilli via gdal-dev a écrit :
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 13:42, Alexandre Gacon wrote:
>> Have you discussed with osgeo on offering such a service, based for example on GitLab on Premise?
> OSGeo already offers such a service [1], based on Gitea [2].
>
> It's been up and running for over 10 years now [3],
> I'm surprised it's not known by the whole community by now.

It is, but personally I would look for a service not administrated by 
the OSGeo community. IMHO OSGeo is too small to offer a forge service 
that has similar availability, capacity, capability as a commercial 
service (well, speaking about the type of availability we expected back 
in pre-AI era). It would make more sense to use a sufficiently large 
non-profit, with paying offerings, that handles > thousands projects 
and can offer such service with paid staff that can handle emergencies.  
The CI part is the most critical part in terms of resource needs. 
Personally, I have zero interest in putting my hands in the guts of a 
forge, its CI infrastructure and related system administration. That's a 
different set of skills & interests than GDAL mission.  Just seeing 
https://mastodon.social/@codebergstatus@social.anoxinon.de/116765466518696640 
, looks like the Internet has become a very hostile territory to anyone 
having public servers...

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