Re: Next steps for gitlab.debian (Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project)
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 07:47:48PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 05:12:01PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Alexandre Viau wrote:
> > > > On 28/07/16 02:40 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > > > > At this point, I'm dropping work on gitlab for debian and moving to
> > > > > less controversial alternative pagure.
> > > >
> > > > Pagure looks great and I am happy to see that we are finally moving
> > > > towards something that (more) people agree with.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your efforts, I am impressed that you still want to work
> > > > on this project even if we are not going to use Gitlab.
> > > >
> > > > Once again, I would like to mention that I want to help this move
> > > > forward as I consider it very important.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a list of things that have to be done where I can give a hand?
> > > I also looked into pagure and I see two problems: it is not packaged
> > > [...]
> >
> > Note that DSA does not need/want the service software itself packaged, only
> > its dependencies.
>
> Yeah, I know about it. But packaged software (or at least its deps), really
> helps.
Point of clarification: we don't expect software that is written just for
Debian (snapshot.debian.org and udd.debian.org come to mind) to be packaged.
We would prefer other software (gitlab, pagure, etc.) to be packaged, if
possible; surely this software is useful to our community and having it
packaged is worthwhile.
--
Luca Filipozzi
http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian
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