An official GitHub mirror for LyX?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

[going back to lyx-devel]

Le 09/12/2020 à 10:00, Yuriy Skalko a écrit :
> But now Trac works without any server maintainer, right? As I understand 
> Gitea don't require much maintenance. Upgrading it is just replacing one 
> binary and restarting (I have done this several times without any issues)
> If there is interest and it is possible to get SSH access to some VM in 
> OSUOSL (or in other place), I'm ready to prepare Gitea instance so we 
> can try it on practice and compare with alternatives.
> 
> As for me, Gitea to Gitlab is like LyX to MS Word. Gitlab is too slow, 
> bloated and has not so good usability.
> 
> But it all depend on the goals. To have better popularity and bring new 
> developers, GitHub will be the best option. To preserve current 
> workflow, updating Trac will be the best. To have fast development site 
> with modern features (such as pull requests and code review), Gitea will 
> provide this.

One big point concerning gitlab/github/gitea is our ability to import 
the trac tickets database as faithfully as possible. Changing our 
workflow is not a problem if it is for the best, but our tickets are the 
history of the project, we should preserve as much data as possible.

JMarc