On Sep 29, 2015, at 09:36 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>First, I have given Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan a deadline of October 31
>-- Halloween in North America -- to get demo instances of their approaches
>for tweaking our approaches (and they were the only ones to propose
>anything so if you are asking "what about considering XXX?", it's because
>no one proposed it and stepped up to make sure it happened if their
>approach was chosen). Nick is proposing using Kalithea and his proposal is
>found at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0474/ . Donald is proposing
>GitHub + Phabricator -- although the Phabricator bit is optional for people
I really appreciate all the work you guys are doing to improve our process.
I am going to ask the question anyway Brett, and depending on the answer, I
might be willing to write a PEP and work on putting up a demo instance,
although with my limited time, I'd sure love to work with someone on it.
Recently, the CEO of GitLab made an offer to the Debian community:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/201695
GitLab (community edition at least) is open source, so it's way more palatable
to me than GitHub. And if they were willing to extend the same offer to us,
then we would at least have their assistance for hosting. I'm happy to reach
out to Sytse and ask - can't hurt, right?!
You have clearance from me to sneak in a GitLab proposal then if you think you can make the deadline. I leave it up to you to figure out how much you want to involve GitLab (heck, you can have them do all the work for all I care since I'm trying to be pragmatic about this so I don't care if it's fully hosted somewhere else, etc.). Just remember the over-reaching goal is to make it so we can all review and merge patches in the majority of cases from a tablet on a beach (IOW I can do a full code review and acceptance on my lunch break at work without a clone w/ SSH keys).
I have no connection to GitLab other than as a happy user.
Honestly, even if you did I wouldn't care. Key thing is that I don't have any connection to any of the proposed companies or projects.