[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Move from svn to Git (and by git I mean Gitea)

[Regina Obe]

Strk,

Let it go.  Bborie was addressing us because

1) We are on the other side of the fence of other people.  
2) We are the most ideological.  My idealogy comes from bad memories of people using  ArcGIS just because everyone else is or it was mandated not because it worked better for them, Salesforce because  look at all those "Time saving features Salesforce provides" and how they were all willing to ignore what it doesn't. Even those who thought it was a bad idea all went along because why bother finding a mob.   I was on the other side and thought?  "I just don't get it"  I admit I still don't get it, but I'd rather be on the losing side of the battle than be a complacent follower of the winning team.
3) We've been around longer (except for Paul he is more pragmatic than ideological) , he wants see more people contributing and hates these roadblocks we put in front.
4) We do a lot of work on things like infrastructure which we see as valuable and many others do not.  Many see as being redundant with what free and paid services provide.
I admit part of my need of caring about silly things like how the manual is made, that we have our own server, that we have our own git we can count is 
Is I just get bothered when there is something there I don't want and I can't change.  And even the thought of not being able to change something even if I never care to change it.  If I can't see it and am not allowed to see it, it bothers me immensely.

I don't want to have to build my car, but the idea that I can look under the hood if I wish to see if there is a rat crawling around is very comforting.
The idea that my choice in the world will be only one car I can't look under the hood of is one of my worst nightmares.


-----Original Message-----
From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sandro Santilli
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 4:01 AM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Move from svn to Git (and by git I mean Gitea)

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:51:09AM -0700, Bborie Park wrote:

> Sandro and you will
> run out of bandwidth due to the demands of said growth and burn out 
> (been there, done that, lesson learned).

And the lesson was "let the grown up deal with infrastructure" ?

Do you see this could in a way apply to exactly what we're building ?

Why do we even develop PostGIS instead of just letting ESRI provide us those tools ? Is it because of the price we can't afford to pay ?

What I'm more concerned about is why it's just me and Regina you are addressing. Note that this mailing list is not maintained by either me or Regina.

Will we ever need private repositories ? Are we going to pay GitHub to have them ? Are we going to have to maintain something else to get them ? Are we going to do w/out them ?

--strk;
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