From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Po Lu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why not set Emacs development workflow based on the popular git forges (GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, ect)? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273852 Archived-At: > Nowadays, the large software projects often conduct the development on > the workflow supplied by git forges (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, > etc.). But it seems that Emacs is still developed directly on git, as > described here [1], which makes maintaining GNU Emacs development a > lot of extra work. GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab require their users to run non-free software, which already disqualifies them for the development of GNU software. There was recently a discussion (perhaps it is still in progress? I don't know) about moving to SourceHut, but I don't think it's gone anywhere. The problem seems to be that the present system exists and works, while nobody has sat down and completed the work required to migrate to a new one. Would you like to volunteer? :D