[SAC] Experimental go git service open for tests on osgeomachine
Brian M Hamlin
maplabs at light42.com
Tue Sep 6 08:17:59 PDT 2016
Hi Guido -
Earlier this year, while building the OSGeo-Live, I noticed a few
more projects moving to Github dot com.
I made a few statements at the time amounting to "it is a fundmental
responsibility of a FOSS dot-org
to keep internal infrastructure independent of commercial vendor front
ends" and the like. This was met
with mixed responses, and in one case outright hostility. However, I
believe some resonate with the
msg, too.
Sandro started the GOGS service and vastly improved the internal docs:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Git_Service
To answer the question "What are other large FOSS dot-orgs current
best-practices ?"
I researched a LOT about other large dot-orgs' backends here :
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GitHostingSoftware
--
To my mind it is as a naive statement to say "is everyone going to
Github dot com" as saying
"people are voting for Hillary Clinton" .. it is not at all settled,
and each group has its own context.
But yes, plenty of OSGeo projects are deep in Github, including the big ones.
The reasoning and rationale for using a git front-end like Github
changes, but it is probably safe to
say that solid ticketing and custom previews of GeoJSON and the like,
are addictive and do make daily
work easier / fun. It is obvious that one contender for Github
replacement, GOGS, is a clone of Github,
down to the page names, fonts and colors.
With all this said, I will repeat to anyone willing to listen, that
I believe it is essential and a responsibility
of a FOSS dot org like OSGeo to maintain critical infrastructure on
FOSS stacks, run by the
OSGeo admins. Git being git, projects can use what they choose to do work.
best regards from Berkeley, California
--Brian M Hamlin
PS- subversion is technically flawed regarding the checksum of
contents.. such that it is no longer
secure to keep master copies in subversion.
On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:58:16 +0000, Guido Stein wrote:
Is github where projects amd chapters are going?
I think non-ssh sign in is a bit insecure, no?
Thanks for your feedback.
Guido
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, 09:38 Jeff McKenna wrote:
Guido: I've created a '2017.foss4g.org' repository there, please login
and let me know your user ID, and I will add you to the team. -jeff
On 2016-09-06 10:32 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Guido,
>
> Actually we are already using this for FOSS4G (please login here and let
> me know when you have, and let me know your user id, and then I can add
> you to the 'foss4g' team). https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g/
>
> Right now there are only 2 repositories ('foss4g.org' for that main
> landing page of logos, and 'video.foss4g.org'), but I could create a
> '2017.foss4g.org' repository for you. Let me know.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2016-09-06 10:24 AM, Guido Stein wrote:
>> When will ssh be added to this service? When will this service be an
>> official non test?
>>
>> Just trying it out and had some questions.
>>
>> Thanks for all your efforts.
>>
>> -Guido
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:37 AM Sandro Santilli > > wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 07:56:02PM -0400, Tom Kralidis wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyone have any idea/feedback on the scope/scale? Are we
>> > looking for a full fledged web/SCM env, or something as an
>> > alternative to keep lighter weight repositories, etc.?
>>
>> I think for a start it would be useful to have something that
>> allows us to keep system configurations in private repositories,
>> like this: https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-config
>>
>> I did start keeping more configs under local gits on the trac/svn
>> machine but didn't push it yet to the SCM.
>>
>> We could also use Gogs to more easily manage operational tickets,
>> creating issue-only repositories for operational purposes, like:
>> https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-service
>>
>> That said, Gogs is in alpha stage and its development is very
>> active. I still don't have a sense of how many features are
>> missing that are really important for OSGeo projects and would
>> like to know. The https://git.osgeo.org/_gogs_/sac/gogs-service
>> repo might serve that purpose (see Issues).
>>
>> --strk;
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Jeff McKenna
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