D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 14:03:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 12:39:39 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>> On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:21:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> But we have no reason to move the D projects away from GitHub 
>>> to GitLab. GitLab has never entered the conversation.
>>
>> Two reasons would be that
>> 1) It already offers [an integration with 
>> bugzilla](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/bugzilla.html).
>> 2) Being open source it can be installed on your own hardware, 
>> which is the main argument being made for using bugzilla.
>>
>> It also has integrated CI.
>>
>> — Bastiaan.
>
> I have no opinion on point #1, but for #2, I do not see that as 
> a benefit. We're aiming to integrate all of our services. As I 
> see it, the less we have to manage ourselves, the better. If we 
> did for some reason want to migrate to GitLab, my vote would be 
> to let them host us.
>
> But my point was, GitHub has worked well for us for years. 
> There's no desire to move away that I'm aware of. If it ain't 
> broke, don't fix it!

Definitely. Personally I think moving the tickets to GitHub is a 
good idea, I just felt these points needed to be made for 
completeness.

— Bastiaan.