On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 13:11, Sander Striker via buildstream-list
<buildstream-list gnome org> wrote:
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> CC: Neil McGovern, Executive Director, GNOME Foundation
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> Future
> The time has come to move to a new home as well. GNOME has been a welcoming and friendly place where this project started, but with the growth above, we are looking to transition to somewhere where we can operate as a larger project in its own right. At the Apache Software Foundation, the home of many well-known infrastructure projects, BuildStream will be in the company of other build systems, like Apache Ant, Archiva, Buildr, Gump, and Maven. We think that we are able to grow the community, both in terms of developers as well as users more effectively there.
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> We will be working with a number of Apache Software Foundation folks on the transition. While doing so, GNOME has generously offered for us to continue here, until we are ready.
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> In the end this will not be a goodbye, it will be a see-you-elsewhere! Looking forward to keep working with everyone.
Hi Sanders,
Sorry for the late reply, but I have two questions about this:
- Can the project still be hosted in gitlab?
The ASF Infrastructure team currently does not have integrations with gitlab. It will likely be easiest to transition to github, but we can figure out the details in a migration plan such that we can keep supporting the dev community needs best.
- Does the movement means a change in the license is needed, or we can
keep the current one?
A license change is required - specifically to the ALv2.
Cheers,
Javier Jardón
Cheers,
Sander
