Fw: Re[2]: [RFC] switch to GitLab / gitlab.com

[Trevor]

David Kastrup wrote  07/02/2020 12:21:30
Subject: Re: [RFC] switch to GitLab / gitlab.com

> The seminal difference being that a workable free version of their
> software is available for the purpose of self-hosting.  That gives an
> escape hatch that either users or competing services can pick up in the
> case of contingency.
>
> This may seem academical, but even the academical possibility reins in
> corporate decision makers from performing wholesale changes on a whim.
The Allura software that we use at SourceForge is also Open Source, I 
believe.

See https://allura.apache.org/

I don't know to what extent the SourceForge team have modified this, but
if self-hosting is a possibility this should at least be seriously 
investigated.
(Not by me, I should add - at 79 my days of technical involvement are 
over.)

We'd always intended to migrate Allura to a self-hosted platform, but
no-one seemed willing to put in the effort 5 years ago.

Trevor