Re: I would like to help

On 15/11/2020 11:31, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 05:53:46PM +0000, Lorenzo Miguel Tareszkiewicz Rezende wrote:
>>> We have our own infrastructure that works well for us. It is, however,
>>> public: anyone can access it. We'd rather not outsource our downtime to
>>> another organisation.
>> It's just a suggestion, gitlab offers a self hosted platform. if you go to <https://gitlab.gnome.org/> you can see an example. As a person who search through your source code and documentation I find it really confusing.
>> Would it be asking a lot if you change the repository to a SelfHosted solution? if you do not have anyone to work on it i would be happy to offer my work.
>
> Yes. We are happy with what we have, we have no plans to move to
> something else. There's simply no advantage and lots of disadvantages,
> from our point of view. If anything, GitLab isn't usable from NetSurf.
> But there is also the resource usage, the time spent administering it,
> the security vulnerabilities that need to be kept on top of, and the
> fact it doesn't actually provide anything we want or need.

As Rob says, replacing the entirety of the existing infrastructure
(which works well, is open, and publicly accessible) is not something we
have any plans to do.

Perhaps it would be helpful if you could expand on what you are having
difficulty with when it comes to understanding our documentation and
source code layout. Replacing everything with gitlab/hub is not going to
fix those problems for you.


J.
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