Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP testing cooperation

[Sam Gleske <sam mxracer gmail com>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:20 AM, gregory grey <ror6ax gmail com> wrote:
> > I know about build.gimp.org.
> >
> > I just wanted to raise this question to the attention of the team - of
> > whether there is a need to support own CI if security is not an
> > issue.It is literally only reason people do that now when we have
> > travis-ci.org/https://circleci.com/etc.Travis is even free for
> > opensource projects.
> >
> > https://build.gimp.org/plugin/disk-usage/ looks pretty full to me, for
> > example. External CI do not have problems with that.
>
> We know of the disk usage issue:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776631
> That's one of the many issues which triggered us into either looking
> for alternative solutions or collaboration or whatever you want.
> Basically we want something which works, is useful and reliable. The
> "need" stops there.
>
> After, which software is it using? I think we don't really care. Now
> obviously we'd prefer our whole infrastructure to run on Free
> Software. And personally I like self-hosting for full control. But
> then there is reality check: it requires contributor time and
> administration skills. So in the end, the CI contributor(s) choose. In
> the GIMP team, our policy is more or less that the one who *do* are
> the one who are in charge of what they do.
>
> Jehan

Since I don't appear to be seen as a contributor or "doer" I'm happy to
just step down completely and remove myself from the project.  Much as I
like GIMP I don't really like the tone of the thread.