[Olsr-users] [RFC] Move to GitLab

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 5:27 AM Lonnie Nunweiler
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
> I never considered that.  I was more worried about the concept of them
> killing it.
>
> I should have thought of that because that is the main reason I do not
> like any cloud storage.  You never know who has access.

If your software is OpenSource "who has access" is not really that
important unless groups of people are blocked from access. The
advantage of a cloud solution is that you get access to a large server
farm instead of using a single small computer.

I see three/four options how the whole "OMG Github Microsoft Issue"
can be resolved.

1.) we can take a few deep breaths, stay on Github and wait if
something happens that would affect the OLSR.org project. At the
moment I don't see any chance for Microsoft to fuck the project up
unless they completely stop free access to Github.

2.) we move a different Cloud platform... I would suggest Bitbucket if
this step is necessary unless someone knows a cloud platform at least
as good or better.

3.) we cry loud and think again about self hosting... which still
leaves the question about  "what software".

3a) we find a "good enough" and useful open source solution

3b) we buy a "wiki/bugtracker/git" solution... the stuff from
Atlassian (Confluence/Jira/Stash) would cost (one time) 30 Dollar...
40 Dollar if we want to include "bamboo" as an automated build server.

(I like the Atlassian stuff because I work with it daily)

Henning