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Move the monero-ecosystem project to GitLab
All Kovri repositories have been already moved. Personally, i'm in favout of moving to GitLab for many reasons, but i would first wait to see what happen to the main Monero repositories. If the project will be moved, i think we should move as well. opinions? @monero-ecosystem/maintainers
see monero-project/meta#236
I have been working also with gitlab and I like gitlabs workflow. I think is a good idea if we would like to remove from "windows" window.
Are we talking about gitlab.com or repo.getmonero.org?
While I am totally in favor of the second, I am less sure with the first.
This is a tricky one, because all maintainers had their projects originally uploaded on github. Changing platform sounds like forcing them to get use to another workflow and change platform. I would say: let's see what happens to all monero repos first.
The choice repo.getmonero.org or gitlab is not that obvious. Rely on the getmonero server means rely on the core team about all server-side configurations, and i'm not very content about that at the moment. For example: new contributors who log in using github are still not able to fork the project to propose their changes. IMHO that's a big issue, because scare contributors away, but looks like there is really no interest in fixing that issue (i spoke about it with moneromooo many times). Also, port 22 has been locked on repo.getmonero.org for some time now, that makes impossible to use SSH with git. I asked to fix it weeks ago and the problem is still existent.
I would really avoid repo.getmonero.org at the current state of things. The whole Kovri projcect is on gitlab.com and everything works fine there.
Oh, I didn't know that. I thought repo.getmonero.org was gitlabs repo. I didn't understand why I was not able to login to gitlab using my normal username, I had to go to the repo.getmonero.org. I also had problems with port 22, and didn't understand why. Thank you for the notice @erciccione.
Assuming this is still in discussion almost a year later, I'm in favor of staying on Github. I've contributed to projects on and off this platform, and just the consistency is easier for new and more casual developers.
If there was ever a major project that took over 90% of the ecosystem's focus, I would definitely reconsider my position. But as of now, the majority of the projects are still small little eggs.
I wouldn't oppose a mirror system though.
@dginovker i think in any case this issue is stalled until monero-project/meta#236 is resolved. So let's just wait and see. In the present situation i too agree we should stay on GitHub.