An official GitHub mirror for LyX?

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 12/6/20 5:11 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 05/12/2020 à 22:41, Thibaut Cuvelier a écrit :
>> On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 20:43, Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org
>> <mailto:sanda at lyx.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 07:48:23PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
>>      > What do you think of it? I already made a quick search in the
>>     mailing list,
>>      > but I did not the topic being discussed.
>>
>>     Looks fine to me as well, though if you don't have strong
>> preference,
>>     gitlab might be ideologically better option :)
>>
>>     It seems you can setup the mirror with 5min update window:
>>    
>> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repository_mirroring.html
>>    
>> <https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repository_mirroring.html>
>>
>>
>> To have a larger user base and better performance, GitHub is the
>> better option (more tools work out-of-the-box with it). GitLab has a
>> clunkier interface, in my opinion, but possibly more features than
>> GitHub. Both are good choices, I'd say. If there is a will to replace
>> Trac in the future while keeping a self-hosted solution, then GitLab
>> may be a better choice, because it is open source.
>
> I would be very happy if we were able to replace trac with something
> more modern. If we cannot do it, it will become urgent soon to upgrade
> it, and thus to upgrade our aging CentOS 6 system (support was only
> until Nov 30, 2020).

You did the upgrade to CentOS 6 a while back, didn't you? Obviously, we
can't be sure an upgrade to some newer version would go smoothly, but it
worked all right last time, yes?

We could presumably ask the OSU people to take a snapshot before we
attempt the upgrade.

Riki