[sword-devel] CrossWire and git

[Greg Hellings]

>From an administration and uptime point of view, I'm in support of GitHub.
The only place I've used Gitlab is at Red Hat and only for internal
projects there. From a pragmatic standing I'm in full support of GitHub,
and with an existing Gitlab instance, we're already set if something comes
up in the future that forces us to reconsider.

--Greg

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 09:57 Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:

> Guys who prefer GitLab, I am sorry. No university research project, no
> commercial job has ever asked me to use GitLab. They have all asked me use
> GitHub. From a purely popular choice and to prevent all of us from having
> to create yet another account (I am sure most everyone already has a GitHub
> account) and learn yet another tool, can't we just settle on GitHub. Would
> it make anyone extremely unhappy? GitLab is not my preferred choice.
>
> On March 18, 2023 6:40:57 AM MST, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 06:41 Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> GitLab vs GitLab
>>>
>>> [image: image3-1.png]
>>>
>>> GitLab vs GitHub: Top 10 Differences between GitHub and GitLab
>>> <https://intellipaat.com/blog/gitlab-vs-github-difference/>
>>> intellipaat.com
>>> <https://intellipaat.com/blog/gitlab-vs-github-difference/>
>>> <https://intellipaat.com/blog/gitlab-vs-github-difference/>
>>>
>>> There is plenty more but this gives a decent summary. GitLab allows
>>> private repos which I think are a really useful thing. I think it should
>>> also be easier to integrate our own GitLab stuff or move it if we want to
>>>
>>
>> This comparison is quite dated (for instance, GitHub definitely has CI/CD
>> integrated nowadays, and GitLab is by no means buggy and slow), but I also
>> would support GitLab over GitHub as our definitive location simply on the
>> principle of it being FOSS instead of closed source hosting.
>>
>> It does have an identical Code owners feature to GitHub with the same
>> syntax and location. I'm not sure if it's available in the self hosted/free
>> versions or if it is one of their premium features. I'm getting conflicting
>> information on that.
>>
>> It does support automatic mirroring, so it would be easy for us to self
>> host the official repository but still allow automated mirrors on GitHub
>> and the public GitLab for ease of contribution by others.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>>
>>> We aren’t a democracy but as far as it goes - I welcome the move to Git
>>> so, so gladly and I vote for moving towards GitLab as there is more active
>>> development of us already
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> Sent from my phone. Please forgive misspellings and weird “corrections”
>>>
>>> On 18 Mar 2023, at 11:20, Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2023-03-18, 09:55 GMT, Fr Cyrille wrote:
>>>
>>> I am very happy with this progress in your thinking about git. I just
>>>
>>> reiterate my preference for gitlab, where as Peter has already pointed
>>>
>>> out we now have all our modules. It would be consistent to add the sword
>>>
>>> sources there as well.
>>>
>>> @David I don't particularly use github for my personal projects which
>>>
>>> are all under gitlab.
>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Matěj
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