Re: [Xenomai] [RFC] Service hosting for Xenomai

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:44:03 +0100
schrieb Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>:

> Hello Wolfgang,
> 
> On 11/27/2017 09:41 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Philippe,
> > 
> > In message <2f850a60-3756-f06d-82c6-ccf6eeb58aa3@xenomai.org> you
> > wrote:  
> >>
> >> As Jan mentioned, there is more than having GIT underneath, there
> >> are deep implications on the workflow, and it really depends on
> >> what we'd want from such platform. If you have any thought,
> >> recommendation, experience with those platforms in your daily
> >> work, it would be great to know your views.  
> > 
> > Full agreement.
> > 
> > What I can offer here an now is this:
> > 
> > 1) DENX can run the Xenomai mailing list.
> > 
> >    We already run some other lists, the U-Boot mailing list with
> >    currently 2877 members being the most important. Adding another
> >    list is just a few clicks aways.
> > 
> >    [OK, it takes abit more work to transfer the old mail archives,
> >    but all this is pretty much straightforward.]
> > 
> > 2) DENX can host one ore more repositories for Xenomai on our gitlab
> >    server (gitlab.denx.de).  We're planning for an upgrade anyway,
> >    and compared to other stuff we have there Xenomay is just a tiny
> >    addition.
> > 
> > Both services can be provided immediately.
> > 
> >   
> 
> Thank you for your kind proposal. Looking at the related discussion
> earlier on this list, it seems that there is a consensus about gitlab
> being one of the few appropriate options for the project, provided we
> prevent cross-talk between the issue tracker and the mailing list,
> choosing the latter exclusively.
> 
> I believe that such solution would be in the best interest of the user
> base, providing for issue tracking and CI in the same move. Since
> Gitlab also provides an integrated wiki, we could use it to publish
> the existing documentation currently on http://xenomai.org which is
> entirely composed of static contents.
> 
> This would not preclude from using additional services in the future
> (IRC etc) hosted elsewhere, but having the core infrastructure at a
> trusted place like Denx is the right move.

For the mailinglist we should keep the domain "xenomai.org" and the
address. And it would be nice to move to a server that can handle
subscribers/posters that are in a DMARC-enabled domain.

Henning

> I'll get in touch with your team for carrying out this migration
> gradually from my server to denx.de.
> 
> Thanks again.
>