Re: [Docutils-develop] [docutils:feature-requests] Re: #58 Migration Docutils from SourceForge to Github

[Stephen F. <st...@th...>]

On this point

> (2) what the concerns for doing a migration.
> 
> For me, the main concern is a monopoly in the hand of a commercial
> corporation.

While I am personally not a fan of GitHub and its pull request workflow
(OpenStack uses their own Gerrit and Gitea instance), it's worth noting that the
distributed nature of Git means lock in is not a huge issue as far as the code
itself is concerned. As long as someone has an up-to-date clone of the repo, you
could always move to a new home in no time. Of course you could lock yourself in
in other ways, such as through use of the issue tracker, CI (GitHub Actions),
etc. but all of these are secondary to the code and migration tooling exists for
many of these features already.

GitLab, Sourcehut, etc. all exist also if you really wanted to avoid GitHub,
however, the open core model of GitLab is problematic for some folks while the
long-term funding for things like Sourcehut is always going to be an issue (we
don't want our new "home" to disappear with minimal/no notice).

Just my 2c.

Cheers,
Stephen


On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 14:16 +0000, "Günter Milde" via Docutils-develop wrote:
> > (1) the maintainers want to migrate.
> 
> There is consensus to migrate to git.
> There is no consensus to migrate to Github.
> > (2) what the concerns for doing a migration.
> 
> For me, the main concern is a monopoly in the hand of a commercial
> corporation.
> > (3) whether my helping hand would be welcome. 
> 
> Thank you for the offer. Sorry for the long silence. 
>  [feature-requests:#58] Migration Docutils from SourceForge to Github
> Status: pending
> Group: Default
> Created: Fri Feb 16, 2018 03:23 PM UTC by Yves Chevallier
> Last Updated: Wed Jun 01, 2022 01:25 PM UTC
> Owner: nobody
> Sourceforge is not really user friendly to report issues, propose pull-request
> and contribute to the project. I would like to know if it is possible to
> migrate Docutils to GitHub. 
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