Ben Rosser <rosser.bjr(a)gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 9:36 AM Alex Scheel <ascheel(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nicolas Mailhot via devel"
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> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
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> > Cc: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:10:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: CPE Weekly: 2020-04-04
> >
> > Le lundi 06 avril 2020 à 08:19 -0400, Alex Scheel a écrit :
> > >
> > > It'd be interesting to see if the FESCo election system could be
> > > repurposed to get a sense of all packagers' opinions, rather than
> > > make assumptions on how the community as a whole feels based on a few
> > > vocal members and their participation in the mailing lists.
> >
> >
> > Fedora guidelines ask Fedora packagers to subscribe to the devel list,
> > so it’s the official place to reach Fedora packagers.
>
> That's not the point I was making.
>
> Not everyone is inclined to loudly argue their positions on the mailing
> list. There have only been 12 unique participants to this thread and 57
> to the other thread.
>
> That isn't indicative of the entire Fedora packager ecosystem. A lot of
> people are staying silent.
>
>
> I believe we need a different way to engage the rest of our packager
> base.
I'm a packager who has been staying silent, but I generally strongly
agree with the points that Adam, Miro, Neal, and others have been
making
As a $nobody that has stayed silent so far, I'd second this: essentially
everything that I would have said, has already been said and ignored
over and over and over again. Honestly, I don't see a point in repeating
the same things again, just to get a polite "we're terribly sorry how we
handled this, but no, we've decided to stick with gitlab"
with a few caveats:
* I don't _really_ mind if we wind up using Gitlab over Pagure, but if
we do, I do feel pretty strongly that we should use Gitlab CE and
self-host it-- I don't think it would be right for Fedora to use an
externally hosted solution and I don't think we should use the
enterprise edition.
I would very much prefer Pagure, mostly because it is one of the few
true FLOSS git forges and we're currently it's biggest user.
* I don't like how this process has been conducted, and I think that
official responses from CPE thus far haven't really made things
better-- if anything, the "we apologize, but this is the decision
we've made" attitude is making things worse.
Exactly. All threads that have unraveled so far only make me
increasingly frustrated and let me feel more and more powerless: if even
established and respected community members cannot make the CPE
reconsider and go back to the drawing board, then what on earth can I
do? Why should I even try to make a positive impact in the Fedora
community, if the CPE doesn't even consider our core values? What will
be ditched next for a proprietary SaaS solution? (yes I am exaggerating
on purpose with the last one)
* I fear that, once again, we haven't adequately understood the
consequences of replacing pagure and some of the features that were
recently-- finally!-- added to it in order to replace missing pkgdb2
functionality will again be lost for a long period of time... and
nothing I've read in any of these threads so far has helped reassure
me that's not the case.
Your fear has been confirmed multiple times by Leigh Griffin: there is
*no* plan or analysis yet how the currently required features of our
pagure dist-git can be implemented in gitlab and how much that will
cost (how that does not defeat the original purpose of this whole ordeal
is beyond me).
I honestly have nothing more to add to that, as imho the last paragraph
already tells us how this thing will end :-(
Dan