[Libosinfo] Moving GIT repo to gitlab.com

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Yeah, I have no objections on moving to gitlab.

Same here, fine by me.

>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Currently the libosinfo master git repository is on the Fedora hosted
>> git server. As we split out the core database and tools from the GObject
>> base library we're going to need to create new git repos. While I could
>> do so on Fedora, it is rather tedious because it is not self-service,
>> it requires opening tickets with Fedora infra.  Fedora git has also
>> tended to be rather lacking performance when pushing/pulling git over
>> the years, and shows no signs of improving.
>>
>> The primary reason why I chose Fedora hosted originally was to be running
>> the project on open source infrastrcture. That goal still applies, so I'm
>> not interested in moving to github.com, no matter how shiny it currently
>> is [1].
>>
>> I think that gitlab.com is a reasonable destination though. It is based
>> on open source software and offers the same ease of use as github does
>> with fully self-service API for managing project membership & git repos
>>
>> So I'm suggesting we immediately migrate to gitlab.com. Assuming that's
>> fine with current committers, I'll setup the project org & import hte
>> git repo. Each committer would just have to create themselves a login
>> account so I can add them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>> [1] Back in the day sourceforge was just as shiny & attractive to every
>>     open source project, and that didn't turn out so well in the long
>>     term when then needed to monetize their investment.
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>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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