Tom Lane wrote:
> Now, running gitlab on community-owned hardware would potentially be an
> option, if we find gitlab attractive from a functionality standpoint.
> The question I'd have about that is whether it has a real development
> community, or is open-source in name only. If github did go belly up,
> would we find ourselves maintaining the gitlab code all by ourselves?
> That might not be the end of the world, but it wouldn't be a good use
> of community time either.
>
> Fundamentally, we're playing the long game here. We do not want to make
> a choice of tools that we're going to regret ten years from now.
We already made a similar choice some years ago when we started
depending on the then-recently open sourced SourceForge code for
pgFoundry. That didn't turn out all that well in the long run.
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