> From: Jelle van der Waa <je...@vdwaa.nl>
> Sent: Tue Nov 21 10:36:08 CET 2017
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Switching the bugtracker to 
> Bugzilla
> 
> 
> I'm quiet happy that we are still running everything on our (community
> sponsored) infrastructure without relying on third party's. This has a
> lot of benefits, we own the data, we can migrate freely to an
> alternative and we don't rely on externals messing things up or changing
> their offering.
> 
> A sponsored hosted platform sounds amazing, but having a
> vendor lock in isn't really :-)
> 
> -- 
> Jelle van der Waa
> ----------------------------------------

That also means you have to manage everything on your own. As Arch is quite 
constrained on human resources this is rather huge dis-benefit. More and more 
projects like gnome or debian are migrating to something like gitlab/github so 
the advantages are real.

Thinking strategically, moving to bugzilla will be one step forward but it 
still leaves Arch on relative backwardness. Why don't take two steps at once 
instead? Migrating one service will make migrating others easier. I know that 
Arch devs main priority as pure volunteer project is to minimize effort however 
it involves danger of being left in obscurity and quite unmanageable state. In 
the end moving faster may require less effort.

The whole web is going to vendor lock-in model and it isn't really obvious that 
staying out is better choice.

G. K.

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