An official GitHub mirror for LyX?

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Thu Dec 10 16:16:42 UTC 2020


On 12/10/20 10:00 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> [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.
>
Agreed. But we ought to be able to test the translation without much 
difficulty while keeping trac running on the server.

Riki




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