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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 04/07/2020 05:05 PM


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Requirements

  • Fully free software
  • Low resource usage
  • Javascript requirements:
    • Friendly upstream that accepts patches to make all features work without JavaScript
    • Code base that don't depend a lot on JavaScript
    • If possible all features should be usable without JavaScript
    • If possible the JavaScript has to be compatible with LibreJS
  • Workflow requirements:
    • Have the ability to tell users, from within the forge how to send patches to the mailing list
    • Friendly upstream that can accept patches for integrating it with a mailing based workflow.
    • Code base where integrating a mailing list based workflow is not too hard to do
  • Have it packaged in a distribution we can use in the FSF VMs to reduce maintenance cost

Possible forges

Gitlab

We used gitlab before and we had resource usage issues. The VM went out of RAM because of that.

It also extensively depends on JavaScript and it doesn't look easy at all to fix.

From our FOSDEM 2020 report that is not yet released:

They used a framework that did most of the work on the server side,
but at some point they switched to a framework that does JavaScript
on the client side.

Accepting patches to fix that would require to double the UI work for
everything, but it might be possible to do server side rendering for
JavaScript. The issue is that it cannot make requests from buttons
like that, so in addition to the page rendering that could happen
through server-side JavaScript, introspection could be used to
rewrite the buttons.

It also hide buttons, which is awful for users as they don't understand what is going on.

Packages: ?

Pargure

Website: https://pagure.io/pagure
Command line tools : https://pagure.io/pag-off

Features:

Packages: currently packaged in Debian SID, in a PPA, might be packaged in other distributions

Contacts: #pagure on Freenode and/orthe mailing list

Updated by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli almost 4 years ago · 11 revisions

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