Re: Git Packaging Round 2: SHOULD Not or MUSt NOT Github
On 2019, സെപ്റ്റംബർ 15 12:57:08 AM IST, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>Hello Pirate,
>
>On Sun 15 Sep 2019 at 12:27AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>
>> That is not going to happen, instead we need to adapt ourselves to
>> this fast paced development and fasttrack.debian.net is a step in
>that
>> direction.
>
>It's not just a matter of adapting workflows -- without real stable
>releases, however good your workflows are, packaging GitLab and
>administering GitLab installations demands more of people's time than
>it
>would if there were real stable releases.
>
>Real stable releases are freedom-enhancing when they free up people's
>time to work on other stuff.
Well, gitlab is not the only git based collaboration platform out there. I'm sure some of the alternatives will have a longer release cycle compatible with Debian stable releases. Those who care about it can certainly contribute to those and promote them. The fast paced development also means it brings out new features faster and apparently many people take that tradeoff currently with gitlab (not just Debian, other Free Software projects like gnome, KDE are either moved or moving to gitlab).
Also if there is a strong interest in LTS releases, gitlab is Free Software and others can maintain backports of security releases.
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