Re: [gentoo-project] Repo mirror & CI: official statement wrt GitHub

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 7:55 PM Virgil Dupras <vdupras@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> Of course, the situation is even worse in this regard with github, but it has inertia on its side.
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That, and anybody can just create a Gentoo org for free without any
kind of official sanction and without any need to host anything.

Since gitlab.com isn't free (as in beer) somebody would need to
officially apply on behalf of Gentoo to get an instance hosted by
them.  So, that means that there is no unofficial free cloud hosting,
and it will only exist if somebody goes to the considerable trouble to
have it set up on infra (or they host it themselves, which seems
likely to have adoption challenges), or get everbody to agree to
request having it set up with the semi-free (as in freedom) cloud
option.

The reason everybody is using Github is because it provides
functionality not available on Gentoo infra, and it is very easy to
use as an alternative.

-- 
Rich