[Centos-automotive-sig] Where should we host our code?

Fri Sep 17 13:50:22 UTC 2021
Leigh Griffin <lgriffin at redhat.com>

Hey everyone,

This came up on the call yesterday to open a discussion about where we
should host our code and I'd like to open it up here for transparency on
the path forward. We have a lot of options in this sphere and all are Git
based.

Historically, CentOS SIGs had their code hosted at https://git.centos.org/.
That's wired up to the CentOS Account system so users can login seamlessly.
Some SIGs have opted to host on Github as well and use their own Github
profile (which is not connected to their CentOS account).

Currently, CentOS Stream is being built in the open at
gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream where community contributors can create a
Gitlab account and interact with CentOS Stream. Gitlab is not currently
wired into the CentOS Account system and the team is working to get that
integration on the  gitlab.com/CentOS project (which is currently dormant).

The suggestion put forward by Pierre-Yves Chibon, who is leading the effort
within Red Hat on creating the services and infrastructure for the SIG, is
to base ourselves on Gitlab. We can create a
gitlab.com/redhat/automotive-sig project and mirror it at
gitlab.com/centos/automotive-sig so we can show people where we will work
once we've resolved the authentication question. The drawback is the need
to use a gitlab.com account, which, in time, we can merge into the CentOS
Account when the integration is completed. The key benefit of having us
base our code on Gitlab is the closeness to Stream from a codebase
perspective and the potential to use similar tools and approaches as their
development workflow.

While no formal decision on where the overall CentOS SIGs will host their
code in the future has been made, the presence of Stream on Gitlab is
potentially future proofing us against a migration.

Does the community have a strong preference for where we should base our
repos? I'm going to suggest we leave this topic percolate for a week to
have some dialog on the best path forward and then create our presence on
the source forge of choice.

Thanks,
Leigh


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