Re: GHM debriefing

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi,

Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> On that topic, I had an interesting discussion with Nicolas Petton of
>> Emacs about patch tracking.  Nicolas explained that Gitlab (free
>> software) doesn’t have some of the technical defects that GitHub has; in
>> particular it can rebase instead of merging, thereby helping preserve a
>> linear history, and it can be dealt with “mostly” by email.  Perhaps we
>> could try running an instance and see what it’s like.
>
> According to Gitlab Documentation [0] [1], the rebase feature you are
> talking about is only available in Gitlab Enterprise Edition, which is
> proprietary [2].
>
> The libreboot website [3] explains "what's wrong with Gitlab", I think
> it is worth reading.

You’re preaching to the choir. ;-)  Of course I’d only be interested in
running a community-controlled instance of the free software version of
GitLab (“Community Edition”).  If it lacks that rebase feature, that’s
probably a showstopper.

> The Kernel Recipes talk by Greg KH [4] about why the Linux kernel
> developers rely on plain text email instead of using "modern"
> development tools might be of some interest too. It'll happen in Paris
> on September 28 [5].

I’m curious about that one.

Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.