Time to consolidate static project pages into GitLab?

[Marco Antoniotti]

I agree with Vladimir,

I personally dislike github (although I use it) and had a very old SF account which I use sparingly.  Alas, during the c-l.net “loss of usability” period, I moved two repositories to SF and I plan to move them to c-l.net as soon as I find some time to do it (it may be a long time, but that’s just me :) ).

Marco



> On May 9, 2017, at 22:16 , Vladimir Sedach <vsedach at oneofus.la> wrote:
> 
> SourceForge is a very good example of why common-lisp.net should
> continue to provide repository hosting and you should host your
> projects' official repositories on c-l.net and encourage others to do
> the same.
> 
> In 2013 SourceForge was acquired by Dice Holdings, who proceeded to do
> things like infect downloadable binaries with spyware and adware.
> Fortunately for SourceForge users it was again sold to another
> company in 2016 who stopped the adware. For now.
> 
> I made the mistake of moving some of my projects' official repositories
> to github in 2012, and plan to move them back to c-l.net this year. You
> can always use github as another remote and get the benefits of their
> pull request interface.
> 
> In the long run having a non-profit entity like common-lisp.net provide
> Free Software hosting is a lot less work than dealing with "free"
> accounts from for-profit corporations that can modify or take away the
> service at any time (Google Code is a good example here).
> 
> Vladimir
> 
> Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> 
>> I am not that happy about github (or sf.net or whatever).
>> 
>> I don’t like the github “one-size-fits-all” basic setup (sf.net is better in that respect).
>> 
>> My preference would be to keep c-l.net as is; however, I am not doing much work about it :)
>> 
>> Cheers
>> —
>> MA
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 7, 2017, at 07:32 , Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If there's no code hosting, then what is the purpose of c-l.net? Without the repositories, that only leaves the mailing lists and a few other random things, I think.
>>> 
>>> I am grateful for everything that c-l.net provides. Otherwise, I'd have to host them myself or find some other means of hosting everything else except the repos (for which there are many alternatives).
>>> 
>>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> wrote:
>>> Several more words.
>>> 
>>> For many projects github pages might be enough. Also, code hosting can be done on github ​​​​. Maybe we should encourage this to free cl.net supporters from maintenance of code hosting?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 06.05.2017, 13:15, "Erik Huelsmann" <ehuels at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi Daniel, Anton,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your reactions. That's enough to decide not to change our ways.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Erik.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Kochmański <daniel at turtleware.eu> wrote:
>>>> Same goes for me, I host various static files on both ECL and McCLIM
>>>> projects (documentation, papers, in case of ECL - releases).
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Daniel
>>>> 
>>>> Anton Vodonosov writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> In cl-test-grid I store reports as static files on cl.net. Not sure it's possible with gitlab pages.
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> - Anton
>>>>> 06.05.2017, 01:30, "Erik Huelsmann" <ehuels at gmail.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> Since the inception of Common-Lisp.net, we have offered projects the option to log in on the host through ssh connections to manage their
>>>>> hosted project pages (https://common-lisp.net/project/*).
>>>>> As off December 2016, GitLab - the software we use to provide the majority of the repositories on the site - includes a hosting offer for
>>>>> static pages: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/24/were-bringing-gitlab-pages-to-community-edition/
>>>>> I've not studied the functionality in depth, but I'm wondering: would the time have come to start moving the project pages into GitLab by
>>>>> using this offering and start moving away from having OS-based accounts?
>>>>> Would people mind or even like to move to this functionality?
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Bye,
>>>>> Erik.
>>>>> http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
>>>>> Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Daniel Kochmański ;; aka jackdaniel | Przemyśl, Poland
>>>> TurtleWare - Daniel Kochmański      | www.turtleware.eu
>>>> 
>>>> "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Bye,
>>>> 
>>>> Erik.
>>>> 
>>>> http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
>>>> Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Ray

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Marco Antoniotti