[Gambas-user] Gambas migration to github (or something else?)

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 09.06.2015 13:13, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> Le 09/06/2015 08:25, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>> Am 09.06.2015 07:24, schrieb Adrien Prokopowicz:
>>> Le Tue, 09 Jun 2015 04:50:53 +0200, Benoît Minisini
>>> <gambas at ...1...> a écrit:
>>>
>>>> Le 09/06/2015 04:21, Adrien Prokopowicz a écrit :
>>>>> Le Sat, 30 May 2015 21:55:04 +0200, Benoît Minisini
>>>>> <gambas at ...1...> a écrit:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Le 30/05/2015 21:42, Adrien Prokopowicz a écrit :
>>>>>>> Le Sat, 30 May 2015 20:23:17 +0200, Benoît Minisini
>>>>>>> <gambas at ...1...> a écrit:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm currently testing the SVN import feature of github for Gambas.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The plan is to migrate from subversion to something else, that "else"
>>>>>>>> having to provide git (or svn) and a bug tracker.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The main reason is the "Gimp" sourceforge case.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If anyone has a problem against using git instead of subversion,
>>>>>>>> please
>>>>>>>> tell. I don't know how to use git yes, and I think it will be better
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> faster.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't know if I can import Google issues into github with the
>>>>>>>> Google
>>>>>>>> code export, I will check.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And at the moment, GitHub tells me that 87% of the repository is
>>>>>>>> imported, while sending me a mail telling that the import has failed
>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>> the same time... Weird!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have used Github (and therefore Git) for both school and personal
>>>>>>> projects for quite some time, so personally I have no problem with
>>>>>>> Gambas
>>>>>>> switching to it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, Github does not provide website hosting nor mailing-list
>>>>>>> features,
>>>>>>> so will these stay on SourceForge ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, I haven't found any "Gambas" organization, do you plan to make
>>>>>>> one
>>>>>>> before importing the repository ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just created a personal account to check svn import.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Have you had any success importing the svn repository to Github ?
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, but there is no mailing-list. I'm thinking about "gna!" now...
>>>>
>>> Oh right, I forgot about that ...
>>>
>>> I made some research around gna!, and I have a few questions :
>>>
>>> - gna! seems to have originated from GNU Savannah, but I couldn't
>>>       find the exact reasons of this separation, and both look pretty
>>>       similar to me. So why not going to Savannah (which seems bigger
>>>       and directly supported by the FSF and GNU) ?
>>>
>>> - Also, thinking about gna!/savannah reminded me of this old
>>>       proposition[0] to become a GNU project.
>>>       I don't remember you actually accepting or rejecting it, nor
>>>       being rejected by the GNU project, so what happened ?
>>>       Maybe they could help with this hosting problem ...
>>>
>>> [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/gambas/mailman/message/32334826/
>> As far as I remember, GNU's restrictions for the source code and rules
>> for comments within the sources were too strict or badly adaptable to
>> the Gambas way of doing. In the end, the idea seemed to fail at this
>> point, as nobody was able or willing to rewrite the code to fulfill the
>> requirements.
>>
>> But I haven't read the archives yet, so it's purely taken from my memory
>> which has a high error rate ;)
>>
>> Regards
>> Rolf
>>
> No, it's "just" a matter of having the time of filling that:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html
>
> I didn't have the time since last year to deal with that...
>
> As for gna!, according to Wikipedia, it is a fork of Savannah made by
> the creators of Savannah that wanted to keep their way of managing it by
> collaboration.
>
> Regards,
>

Ah ok, I see. I read the GNU page, and the only thing that comes to my 
mind is about qt and maybe other parts which are not completely GNU 
compliant (GTK+ is, right?). Would that be a problem?

On the one hand, being part of GNU seems to be a means of becoming more 
popular. On the other hand, GNU is a world of its own, so it might mean 
to be part of a special biotope, bound in a microcosmos, and hopefully 
not a parallel universe ;) But my knowledge about these things is far 
from being concise, so just take me too seriously here. I would just be 
sad if one day I had to read "we cannot do this or that thing because 
we're part of GNU and it's policy here...".

Rolf