From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GHM debriefing
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:24:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inufolj0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fawh8t8.fsf@lassieur.org> ("Clément Lassieur"'s message of "Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:28:51 +0200")
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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-28 22:09 GHM debriefing Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-29 12:48 ` David Craven
2016-08-29 13:50 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-29 15:20 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-08-30 15:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-31 13:40 ` ng0
2016-08-31 13:48 ` David Craven
2016-08-31 22:28 ` Clément Lassieur
2016-08-31 23:08 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-01 6:41 ` ng0
2016-09-01 12:24 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-09-03 8:05 ` Hartmut Goebel
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2013-08-29 21:52 Ludovic Courtès
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