[Qgis-psc] GH move

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi, 

I also think that the fact that Microsoft bought Github is of no
particular relevance to us. The move to Gitlab (as decided in Madeira)
should be properly planned and should not result in a lack of
functionality and availability compared with the current Github
solution. 

Microsoft is way more open source friendly than other big companies
(e.g. Oracle) these days. I would be worried if Oracle bought Github as
Oracle screwed up just about every Open Source project they got involved
with (OpenOffice, Solaris, MySQL, you name it) - which resulted in forks
of the projects. 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2018-06-05 04:55, Alexander Bruy wrote:

> Fully agree with Nyall and others. There is no need to move from GitHub
> just because of these news.
> 
> 2018-06-05 3:26 GMT+03:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>: On 5 June 2018 at 10:19, 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. 
> Why? Honestly, what's changed from the QGIS project's perspective?
> 
> MS have been reasonably open-source friendly over recent years, and in
> any case GitHub was always a proprietary platform run by a commercial
> entity (vs gitlab, a *mostly-open* platform run by a commercial
> entity). I personally can't see why there's been any big reaction at
> all to this buy out, or why we would need to move fast on anything.
> 
> Nyall
> 
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