Hello,
On 29.09.2015 00:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com> writes:
>> On 9/28/15 11:43 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> It has been stated pretty clearly in this thread by a number of senior
>>> community people that we're not going to use a closed source system.
>
>> GitLab OTOH is released under a MIT license, so it is an option. I don't
>> know how it compares to other suggested options, but if YUriy wants to
>> propose it it's at least a viable option.
>
> I think a more accurate summary of what's been said is that we won't
> consider putting any important functionality on proprietary platforms,
> of which closed-source tools would be a subset. The intention of the
> community is that we'll be around for as long as there's a critical mass
> of people interested in maintaining Postgres. We will not be dependent
> on any one company, and that's why e.g. github is out. (A lot of smaller
> open-source projects don't have the luxury of rejecting such options ...
> but we do, and we will.)
>
> 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.
I ported GitLab to run on FreeBSD. From this progress i can say, that
there is an active community. Many of the features (and bugfixes) came
directly from the community.
I'm not for or against GitLab. I just wanted to point this out.
As mentioned in another Thread Bugzilla is used by LibreOffice and
Linux. I want to add FreeBSD to the list.
Greetings,
Torsten
