Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload
Luca Boccassi writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload"):
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 02:31, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> > Does it support gitweb? I thought it only supported regular Git
> > operations, but I could be mistaken.
>
> I might be wrong, but this is what this looks like to me (it was
> linked to me on IRC yesterday, wasn't aware of it before):
>
> https://browse.dgit.debian.org/
Thanks for taking an interest.
That is indeed a cgit view of the dgit git server.
> The git repositories, sure. The git forge?
I'm not sure what you mean by "forge". I think "forge" means
"something like gitlab / sourcehut / github / ...". Ie, a system
which doesn't just do git repository hosting, but also has (some or
all of) a linked issue tracker, merge request review systme,
discussion tooling, CI, etc.
The t2u/dgit git server doesn't have any of those things. It's purely
a git server, with some bespoke access control. So I don't think it's
a "forge".
It *does* present the contents of its repositories via a web interface
for use by a web browser, but that view is completely read-only.
(Indeed in the current setup in Debian it's served from a mirror.)
Whatever the definition of "forge" the key point you are making is
that you see it as competing with Salsa. But, I don't think it does
compete with Salsa. It doesn't offer any of the useful features that
Salsa has.
(In another sense, the Debian archive + ci.debian.net + the BTS +
britney etc. etc., *is* competing with Salsa. In this view of things,
browse.dgit.d.o is a view of part of the archive. But I don't think
that's where you're coming from.)
Salsa is not really suitable for use as the t2u/dgit repos git server,
for the reasons others have explained in this thread. Very early in
dgit's history, the dgit repos were hosted on Alioth, but we replaced
that with a dedicated server for many reasons, some of which are
security-related and discussed in Russ's review.
Ian.
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