On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 02:50:22PM +0100, Leigh Griffin wrote: > 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. A week has passed and there hasn't been any strong preference voiced. We have checked Smooge's feedback and it looks like gitlab can do migration with redirect from the old location to the new one both at the http and the git level [1] so moving to the centos namespace as soon as it is available should be transparent. So I have asked for the project : https://gitlab.com/redhat/automotive/automotive-sig to be created and we will soon be able to push to it :) Pierre [1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/index.html#what-happens-when-a-repository-path-changes