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Fedora's Git forge decision

([Distributions] Mar 30, 2020 15:56 UTC (Mon) (corbet))


Back in February, LWN [1]reported on the process of gathering requirements for a Git forge system. That process then went relatively quiet until March 28, when the posting of [2]a "CPE Weekly" news summary included, under "other updates", a note that the decision has been made. It appears that the project will be pushed toward a not-fully-free version of the GitLab offering. It is fair to say that this decision — or how it was presented — was not met with universal acclaim in the Fedora community; see [3]this response from Neal Gompa for more.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/810776/

[2] https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/CAJqbrbeQdQq1J4VAKKixQB7KSV+18yf647BfWFajaz2=K6R3-w@mail.gmail.com/

[3] https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/CAEg-Je9jnXxr4ocxE966sv+5wBwQ30aXznbR3e+tw7k2F_D0YQ@mail.gmail.com/

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred
to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never
claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum-
stances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit.
Silence, though, could. It was in the days of the rains that their prayers
went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of
prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri,
goddess of the Night. The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through
the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the
Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze
rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes orange at midday.
Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique...
-- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"