Re: No Issue Tracker - Say it Ain't So!

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 07:01:16AM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> 
> > Note that since they also offer a hosted solution we should use that to
> > play with instead of trying to install it at this point.
> >
> > Integrating the issue tracker looks like it's just a call to this API:
> > http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/api/issues.html#new-issue. I don't normally do
> > web development myself so I'd rather not figuring out how to setup a copy
> > of the website to hack on, but if no one else wants to try it I can take a
> > stab at it.
> >
> > Presumably mirroring our git repository would work the same as it does for
> > mirroring to GitHub. My guess is that would be enough to get the basic
> > git/issue tracker integration working.
> >
> > Commitfest could be tied in as well. Presumably each commitfest would be a
> > milestone (http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/api/milestones.html) and each
> > submission an issue.
> >
> >
> One of the issues identified with  Github is that it is closed and
> commercial which goes against the expressed desires of the PostgreSQL
> community. As such, it's important to note that Gitlab seems to be in the
> "freemium" model with a "community" and an "enterprise" version so for
> comparison purposes we should only look at the features in the open-source
> community version:
> https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare

Pardon me for getting off in the weeds here, but the PostgreSQL
community is just fine with proprietary closed-source software.  There
are probably more billion-dollar proprietary closed-source forks of
PostgreSQL than of any other open source software, certainly if you
normalize to the number of contributors.  We fully intend to continue
spawning those proprietary closed-source forks.

What we're not fine with is depending on a proprietary system, no
matter what type of license, as infrastructure.  We've been burned
that way before, and we have no intention of getting burned again that
way again.

Cheers,
David.
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