On 2021-07-26 01 h 50, Alexander Wirt wrote:
I was under the assumption the Salsa Team would somehow benefit from
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 07:59:26PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 06:19:37PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
Donald Norwood <donald@debian.org> writes:...
Dear all,
Debian and GitLab have been in discussion regarding an Open Source
Partnership toward which we will jointly produce mutual promotions,
shared stories, and announcements using both organizations press and/or >>>>> publicity channels.
Out of the blue, without any more context and content,
???
"Debian" and "Gitlab" are speaking with each other
since the very start of "Salsa".
I am not sure to be happy with this news.
To me is the news that "press" and "marketing" are more involved.
Because I assume good faith, I allow meself to focus on other stuff
in (Debian) life.
To me, such a partnership is something quite stronger than sponsorship >>>> and I'd be a bit ill-at-ease with it being done without the whole Debian >>>> Members being consulted.
Yes, a DD is allowed to represent the project.
Last but not least, what kind of data would be shared regarding how we >>>> use gitlab in Debian?
Please give the (humble) Salsa admins time to elaborate.
I have no insight information about "the data",
but imagine (dull??) statistics on accounts, active accounts, projects,
active projects.
I do trust my fellow Debian Developers to deal wisely with it.
For (gory??) details I recomment to join the Salsa admin team.
To be honest - and to my suprise - we weren't involved in this
discussions. We don't share any personal data and we won't do that.
We share rough numbers (numbers of projects, users,
groups, storage used), but we also do that regulary in talks (at least
when there were real conferences).
Alex - Salsa Admim
this partnership in some way (technical help, extra resources, etc.),
but I guess it's not the case. Thanks for clarifying.
I'm not sure I understand what Debian has to gain from this "Partnership".
More media exposure? I don't think we really need it: the Publicity Team
was already doing a great job.
More money? Gitlab is a silver sponsor for DebConf21, but so are ARM,
Ubuntu, HRT, Two Sigma and Globo.
Although I'm happy Gitlab the git forge exists, Gitlab the enterprise
(Gitlab BV) is a for-profit, venture-capital backed entity. If we're OK partnering with them for more exposure [1], why are we not partnering
with other similar enterprises?
DSA has been using Puppet forever to maintain their infrastructure. Why
not strike a partnership with them?
If anything, I think this muddies Debian's image more than promotes it.
Had Gitlab BV been a non-profit, I don't think this would've been a
problem to me.
:(
[1]: Clearly this is rhetorical, I'm not.
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