Re: anaconda-patches mailing list

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:34:53 -0400,
>  Chris Lumens <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >Certainly! Only possible issue from the community/contributor
>>> perspective could be
>>> >that there are some people who don't use or don't want to use GitHub,
>>> for various reasons.
>>>
>>> Hopefully the project will someday move to Pagure.
>>>
>>
>> I can't see that happening.
>>
>
> If the reasons are limitations of Pagure, filing issues for needed
> features would help in making Pagure better for everyone.
>
> I wouldn't expect the network effects of github to be that important to
> outweigh running on a service run by non-free software. Nor would I expect
> a migration to be too much effort to do eventually. (Though there are costs
> and it would be prudent not to rush a change until Pagure's future is more
> well known.) There certainly could be technical blockers, but hopefully
> those could be eventually addressed.
>

Changing the development workflow is not something we've ever taken
lightly.  There have been two major shifts in the last 10+ years.  First
was the move from cvs to git.  The second was to move off Fedora
infrastructure to github, and that decision wasn't just rushed through.

github has made it significantly easier for us to accept contributions from
other individuals and companies.  Like it or not, github has succeeded in
making contributing to projects easy.  If Pagure is just duplicating this
functionality, fine, but that's not a good enough reason for us to change
the development workflow.  A large part of us wanting to move off Fedora
infrastructure was the barrier to entry for gaining outside contributors.
It was simply too high.

I'm not saying yes or no regarding moving things off github, but just that
there are significant benefits to github that are very beneficial to the
project right now.

-- 
David Cantrell <[email protected]>
Manager, Installer Engineering Team
Red Hat, Inc. | Westford, MA | EST5EDT

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