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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 5:58 PM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> So I'd suggest we either are convinced that our packaging actually makes
> sense, and use it, or we close shop.
>

Perhaps it makes more sense for linked binaries than for scripts or
java (ie, 99% of web hosting)?

In any case, the solution we're using today is Github, which also
doesn't run on Gentoo and is proprietary, because nobody can be
bothered to deal with getting Gitlab to run on Gentoo.  It seems like
at least moving to something that could conceivably be self-hosted on
any distro (perhaps even Gentoo) would be an improvement.

However, as others have pointed out Gitlab apparently needs fairly
frequent updates.  So, it is something that would require a bit of
care.  That would be an argument for hosting it on an
upstream-recommended platform that actually gets updates if we want to
host it ourselves.  If we had a long line of people willing to keep
everything up to date on Gentoo that would be one thing, but right now
it isn't even packaged, which doesn't speak well for rapid security
updates.

I guess in the meantime we can just stick with Github...

-- 
Rich