Re: On git.gnome.org and gitorious

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 16:15 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> GNOME migrated to Git two years ago but there are a few long standing
> issues that have not been addressed yet, it's certainly not too late
> but with the design team moving to github, it's certainly time to do
> something about it.
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/GitMigration had it written down already, "For
> the future, enable Gitorious or some other Git-based collaboration
> tool". Is this something we can handle by ourselves? Or should we,
> just like the bugzilla upgrade a few years ago seek the foundation
> help to hire someone? [this is why this is posted to foundation-list]
> 
> With a gitorious instance set up, we'd achieve both a place for
> personal branches, stopping the "delete work-in-progress branch from
> git.gnome.org, then create it again, pushing all commits because I
> rebased" dance, and a place where it's easier to set up accounts for
> newcomers (which is a reason why the design work doesn't happen on
> git.gnome.org).

If we were to change the infrastructure we use for hosting git trees,
we'd need something more concrete than "wouldn't it be nice". Please
give us a list of advantages, changes, potential pitfalls, pricing, etc.
For example, why gitorious and not github?

This is a bit too much like writing a letter to Santa :)

Cheers

PS: Also, I'm not sure that the foundation list is the best place to
discuss such infrastructure changes, unless you're wondering about
funding. But you haven't given us a price...

> [PS: working on git infrastructure would also be a good opportunity to
> fix https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599066]