More and more projects migrate to gitlab for reasons, just two days ago
KDE announced their move and the reasons behind it:
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/06/29/welcome-kde/
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:21:09 +0200
Tim <tbier@posteo.de> wrote:
Hi Erich, hi everybody
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:49:59 +0200 (CEST)
Erich Eckner <crux@eckner.net> wrote:
- cgit is fine but something like gitlab could combine
that ...
This may sound nice, but it will also be a lot of work - and the
benefit might be smaller than expected.
Well, I am not saying all the features are needed, but migrating the
git repos is swiftly done, tickets from flyspray might be a bit harder
but it's not like we are having a lot of tickets open and flypsray
could still be accessible as read-only for history reasons if there is
no way of importing the entire db.
CI is just a wish :) I know christmas won't come early.
The basic idea is to have a platform that makes our development
process more visible and maybe a bit more agile? (don't stone me, I'm
not whipping you through a sprint :))
I think, it would help to be able to sort by version in the portdb
search. My usual approach is: "I need port 'x'" -> search for 'x' in
the portdb
- -> look at the 3 results for 'x' -> take the newest -> try to
build -> add it to my repo -> try to improve further (e.g. newer
version)
I do it the same way, and I imagine that most CRUXers do it like that.
A function like this surely would help to guide newbies to pick the
best decision.
If everyone is encouraged to create their own repo (and if it's
really easy), then we will have one repo per user in the end - and I
don't see, why that would be bad. I think, it's hard to mark repos
as a whole as "good content" or "bad content" - I, for example, have
definitely "bad content" in my repository: Stuff, that noone besides
me uses. But otoh, I think, this does not apply to *everything* in
my repo :-)
I really try to keep my public ports, as clean as possible. Same
counts for my non public ports, but the rules are less strict there
:-) While encouraging users to get active, I feel like it's also
important to encourage a good quality. Those "work on my system" kind
of ports really aren't fun to deal with and will drive newbies away,
if they aren't able to get out of that mess or get stuff running like
it is supposed to.
Have a great day,
Tim