On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, Pirate Praveen wrote: > [adding gitlab folks in cc] > > On Saturday 11 June 2016 02:16 PM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Ole Streicher wrote: > > > >> Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> writes: > >>>> Debian needs feature X but it is already in the e.nterprise version. We make > >>>> a patch and for commercial reasons it never gets merged (they already sell it > >>>> in the enterprise version). Which means we will have to fork the software and > >>>> keep those patches forever. Been there done that. For me, that isn't > >>>> acceptable. > >>>> I don't want another Nagios. > >>> > >>> I agree this is a legitimate concern. I have asked Gitlab Inc for their > >>> policy on merge requests to Gitlab CE for features already in Gitlab EE. > >>> Based on their reply, we can decide how to proceed. If their reply is > >>> positive, I will ask them to make it public, and we can go ahead with a > >>> debian.net instance of Gitlab. If their reply is negative, we can drop > >>> gitlab and consider Pagure (second best option). > >> > >> We do patching as part of our daily packaging already: to replace (or > >> circumvent) non-dfsg functionality, to integrate into our environment, > >> and everything else that upstream is not willing or able to apply > >> himself but is good in our opinion. Depending on the package, you may > >> find huge patches for our packages > >> > >> I would not see why a missing functionality of gitlab would be different > >> here. > > Given my personal expericence with so called opencore software, I do. > > > > Alex > > > > > > Hi Alex, > > GitLab folks have indicated their interest to consider solving access > problems for debian (possibly releasing relevant code as Free Software > if we are serious about using gitlab). They would like to have a call > with relevant admins (since you being git.debian.org maintainer, your > presence would be essential, if we were to do such a call). Would you be > open to such a call? I really prefer async communication like mail. Alex
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