On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Mike McLean <mikem(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 10/20/2015 03:47 PM, Mike McLean wrote:
> On 10/20/2015 11:47 AM, Adam Miller wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I wanted to make a few suggestions/proposals to the Koji project
>> to get feedback.
>>
>> First off, I'd like to propose that koji officially move out of
>> FedoraHosted and into pagure[0] so that people can easily fork, create
>> topic branches and open pull requests for interactive peer review.
>
> This has come up separately, and think I am agreeable, but still just
> slightly cautious to embrace a tool that is so recently out of beta.
So I really am a bit torn on this. Afaict, pagure requires a Fedora
account (I don't see a generic openid login option).
I asked another contributer how they felt about github and they balked
at the notion of having to create a github account. However, that
aversion could easily go the other way for potential contributers. There
are plenty of Koji instances besides Fedora's and it is entirely
possible to be interested in Koji and not Fedora.
Side note: I realize that this is entirely where we are now, as
fedorahosted also requires a fedora login, but if we're making this move
to improve participation, shouldn't we consider the larger community?
Or maybe I'm worried over nothing. The old ways will still work, and git
is still git.
Is there anyone on the list that wants to contribute and is averse to
creating a Fedora account?
I personally have no problems having a Fedora account (I've had one for
years). But I know folks who are interested that balk at the idea of having
to set up a Fedora account., especially if they intend to work on Koji in a
way that really is more for "beyond Fedora" in their view.
Perhaps maybe
GitLab.com could work?
GitLab.com lets people use their
Google, Twitter, GitHub, or BitBucket accounts to log in. If they don't
have an account with any of those services, they can create a regular
account. It also helps that GitLab is FOSS in its own right, and while we
don't have it in Fedora (I don't know to what extent how many of the
dependent gems we are missing), I think it's more appealing than GitHub for
a lot of people. I believe even the GNU Mailman folks recently made the
move to
GitLab.com, too.
Of course, Fedora could host its own GitLab CE instance by installing
their... erm... "Omnibus" RPM that contains all the stuff to make it work.
But I think that it would probably make more sense to roll out to
GitLab.com and potentially move it in-house if Fedora can get GitLab into
the repositories.
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