[Qgis-psc] GH move

[Nathan Woodrow]

Remember also moving to another platform leaves some of the community
behind, so anything like this is a long term plan with migration not just a
quick over night becacuse GitHub changed ownership.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5 June 2018 at 10:49, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just to bring a bit more context to our project...
> >
> > Decision has been taken during Madeira HF to move to Gitlab.
>
> I realise that, and am happy to go along with this group decision
> *when it's all proven possible and is ready to go*. But the ownership
> of GitHub should have no bearing whatsoever on this discussion. We
> move when (and if) we can without any regressions, and not on an
> accelerated timeline because of this news.
>
> > Original reason was the move of the tbug tracker from Redmine to Github.
> > Many raised their voices for Gitlab and decision was taken to see if it
> is
> > feasible and reasonnable to move everything at once to Gitlab (code,
> > tracker, CI).
> > Vincent proposed to establish a wiki page for listing all the issues
> > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QGIS-Platform-migration-plan
> > There is a proposal in the grant program for doing the migration, but it
> is
> > not really clear to me if this also integrate the CI (or only the
> code/bug
> > tracker) part which might be very tedious.
>
> (My understanding is that the proposal is for prototyping this change
> -- not implementing the actual change itself. Oslandia staff can
> clarify here.)
>
> But I agree... porting the CI would be a HUGE effort. It's thanks
> mostly to your and Matthias' tireless efforts that we have the
> mostly-great CI setup we have today. I can't even begin to estimate
> the number of volunteer weeks of development you both have sunk into
> this, but my continued, wholehearted thanks are extended to you both
> because of it!
>
> Nyall
>
> >
> > I don't think today's news is affecting our situation, despite our
> personnal
> > relation with MS ;)
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Denis
> >
> > Le lun. 4 juin 2018 à 20:26, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> >>
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> IMO that would be a silly move for no added benefit and a lot of pain.
> MS
> >> now is not the MS of old, they are not the open source haters of the
> Ballmer
> >> years like they used to be.  I strongly suggest we stay where we are
> and not
> >> react like that for this.   I trust MS over most companies that could
> have
> >> bought it (if it was Oracle you would have had my support) and I
> suspect it
> >> will lead to a lot of good things in the future.
> >>
> >> I am ok to move to other platforms in future if we need but jumping ship
> >> just because MS now own it is not a good reason to move.
> >>
> >> - Nathan
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all.
> >>> Just read about ms buying GH. Maybe we should react reasonably fast?
> >>> I'd be in favour of migrating to gitlab, preferably on our server.
> >>> Opinions?
> >>> Cheers.
> >>> --
> >>> Sorry for being short
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