On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 05:59:14AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, shirish ??????????????? wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > While I love and loved alioth, I know for probably newish people the > > interface is somewhat ugly. > > > > >From what I did see in https://lwn.net/Articles/724986/ it seems there > > were lots of pros and cons which were discussed. I was also able to > > converse with Alexander Wirt and download the survey which wasn't > > available anymore for public consumption. > > > > Can somebody tell/share which forge are the developers looking forward > > to replace alioth with, pagure or something else . > > > > The choices seem to be to do lot of coding if some project/product is > > taken which is not mature enough or has features that we want and in > > some cases there is restrictive licensing or/and have two products, > > one which has foss licensing and the other which has commercial > > aspects but more features. > > > > While there doesn't seem to be any hurry to replace alioth today, the > > clock is ticking. > > > > There is/was some discussion about it in May 2017 > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/05/msg00095.html, the > > thread I'm reading right now. Would be nice though if somebody can > > share what is/are the possible scenarios. > We created a mailinglist [1] for those discussions. > > Alex > > [1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/alioth-staff-replacement >
Archive at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/alioth-staff-replacement/ I think an interresting post is http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/alioth-staff-replacement/Week-of-Mon-20170710/000014.html I have full confident in Formorer that he can resist the sales team from Gitlab. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
