[QGIS-Developer] On github, gitlab, and imperialist nations screwing us all over...

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 09:08, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
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> /me is googling for cloud hosting services in North Korea :-P
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> Sandro's comments about migrating issues to gitea make me think he has more in mind than a simple mirror of the code….
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> If we want a mirror surely it is easier to simply have a small hetzner server running a public read only git repo? No objection from me to have mirrors btw. Also isn’t this something we can just leave up to interested community members to work on? Nobody is complaining and it doesn’t seem useful to spend time and effort on something nobody is asking for.

I was under the impression that Sandro WAS volunteering to do this?

Nyall


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> Regards
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> Tim
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> On 6 Aug 2019, at 23:14, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 00:40, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:26:04PM +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
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> I think at the least we could/should endorse an official, read-only
> repo mirror which isn't affected by the trade laws, e.g.
> https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/qgis/QGIS would be a great candidate
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> Latest Gitea release (1.9.0) introduced support for also migrating
> issues/pull-requests/labels/milestone/wiki/releases from a github
> project. I'd be happy to try that out if anyone can give me
> credentials to hit the API to do so (drop me a note).
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> Sandro - can you confirm that osgeo infrastructure isn't subject to
> the same trade restrictions as github and gitlab.com?
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> My understanding is that it WOULD be, given that osgeo is a US based
> organisation. And if so, osgeo isn't a solution here, and we need
> something based in a less early-19th-century region of the world.
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> Nyall
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