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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks!

I'm concerned about this interfering with getting stable releases out.  I
am spending hours per week chasing a moving target already--and while I'm
not going to ask folks to stop improving KiCad, changing to git right now
would put a serious cramp in my efforts to get stable releases out.

If you are volunteering to spend time on a future KiCad infrastructure
migration, please speak up and I'll personally contact you when it's
appropriate if you don't follow the list.

If you are volunteering to be a system administrator for KiCad, run a VM,
make backups, follow security updates, monitor logs, make sure we don't
owned by the monthly "every system on the internet is hackable" exploit,
and make sure we're up when our globally diverse developers want to push,
please speak up.

There is serious value to running on hosted services, and also hosted free
and open source services, both in dollars and time, and KiCad does not have
an excess of either of these!

I am sponsoring these build servers through my company, and it's harder
than you think to keep them running--and I've been a professional Unix
sysadmin!

Thanks everyone.  I am excited to see people wanting to contribute but I
think there are better things we can do so everyone has a better KiCad
experience than migrate away from Launchpad today, especially because we
already provide an up-to-date Git mirror at Github.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> git-bzr is buggy
>
> What happened with the svn to git migration that was horrible out of
> curiosity? The only thing I could see is issue tracking? The codebase
> is already migrated because of the git mirror.
>
>
> >What is less clear is the hosting sight.  I'm am
> >less than thrilled with using github because AFAIK it is not free
> >software.
>
> Why does it matter? It's extremely easy to switch between them.
> One of the very few "open-source" hosts is https://gitorious.org/ but
> there is no issue tracking and I would advise agaisn't it for that
> alone.
>
> Now if you self-host, you can do Gitlab https://about.gitlab.com/ but
> it requires a bit of a VM or server to run, it's quite the resource
> hog due to its design so for a heavy usage like KiCAD you absolutely
> do not want to run it on a cheap VM without headaches :/
> The alternative is to use Trac and separate git repo manager, it can
> run on a cheap VM no problem.
>
> >Does launch pad support git?
> Nope
>
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Joel Holdsworth <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Now if you self-host, you can do Gitlab https://about.gitlab.com/ but
>> it requires a bit of a VM or server to run, it's quite the resource
>> hog due to its design so for a heavy usage like KiCAD you absolutely
>> do not want to run it on a cheap VM without headaches :/
>> The alternative is to use Trac and separate git repo manager, it can
>> run on a cheap VM no problem.
>>
>
> As a counter to that... I've deployed/managed gitlab on a company
> manchine, and I've found it to be an excellent and very vibrant project. I
> would highly recommend it.
>
> I can't speak to it's performance on tiny VMs, but it seems quite fine a
> very modest x86 box here.
>
> Joel
>
>
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