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Author: Martijn Dekkers
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To: Dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] Free software, free tools -- git server and wiki
Hi,

I am waiting on delivery of a bunch of server, they should be ready in a
day or two. Once they are available, I will get them up and ready for
whatever toolset the community deems best.

On 1 December 2014 at 01:17, fr33domlover <fr33domlover@???> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
> tl;dr    Who wants to participate in a GitLab instance (first just
> read-only
> mirrors), especially if you have a server available (my best option is to
> rent
> a VPS)? Also, where's the official wiki if exists (without-systemd.org
> seems
> unused)?

>
>
>
> The issue of G1thub being nonfree and centralized and all those bad things
> Debian helps solve has already been discussed a lot, so I won't repeat the
> details.
>
> Since the "wiki" isn't being used (in favor of g1thub issues) and all
> the repos are there too, there will soon be a large base of code and wiki
> pages
> etc. which will become harder and harder to move to somewhere else... it
> has
> been suggested that at least read-only mirrors are launched for all the git
> repos, as a first step to migrate (while it's still painless). If you
> really
> want, g1thu8 mirrors can exist to attract all the users from there.
>
> So straight to the point, here's the idea: Choose a reasonable self-hosted
> server, install GitLab on it and write a cron job that mirros all the git
> repos
> into GitLab periodically (should be very simple).
>
> I could probably handle the installation, configurationfr33domlover
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> and small admin tasks,
> but I don't have a server. I realize some people here have access to
> servers,
> which is great. Does anyone want to take part in such a GitLab instance? It
> will need to ba made anyway eventually - better start early (there are
> enough
> people here offering help - some can do coding, some can do admin work,
> some
> can do packaging... it shouldn't hurt the main effort to finish the POC).
>
>
>
>
>
> Another question - is the wiki going to be active? Tons of info on this ML
> can
> be organized much better in collaborative editing style, in the same
> manner as
> Debian's MoinMoin instance does. But the without-system.org wiki seems to
> be
> unused and personally I avoid g1thub (for all the reasons discussed in the
> g1thub issues and on IRC etc. many times) so I can't even contribute any
> thoughts there. And the issues aren't really a wiki of course - so I think
> there should be a clear definition of where the wiki is. Should I use
> without-systemd.org? Or you want a g1thub wiki? Or a MoinMoin instance?
>
>
> I hope I'm not distracting anyone/anything from the main effort - I'm just
> so
> busy right now (unfortunately with much more boring things) I don't think I
> focus on coding or packaging until my schedule calms down. But otherwise it
> will be a pleasure to help with coding/porting/liberating too (especially
> C/C++).
>
>
>
> fr33domlover
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