Re: Call to move to github or gitlab

From:

Ricardo Bánffy

Subject:

Date:

Wed, 8 Jun 2022 21:36:04 +0100

What could we do so that you don't have additional work?

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 8:38 PM Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 05:35:32PM +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that it would be great to consider moving the main git repo from
> current https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git to github or gitlab.

actually that's not the "main git repo".

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#latest_version

> Reasons to do that are:
> - currently there is absolutely no visibility of issues
> already submitted/WIP

This mailing list works, for the usual amount of traffic.

(Fedora developers have no basis for complaint, because they close
most bugs without addressing them).

> - no possibility to submit easy push requests

hmm - looking at this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436394

example, I'll have to think about that...

> github offers the discussion tab so with that it would be possible to move
> away from mailing list to github discussions.

That might be apt if it were addressed to a group of developers,
to get their input.

There's no group of developers -- not even a set of regular contributors.
Aside from me.

You might find this helpful:

https://invisible-island.net/personal/changelogs.html#examples

(keeping in mind that most contributions are only a line or two).

Your suggestion wouldn't improve the process,
because it would involve additional work from me.

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