Hi Sebastian, Which features you are referring to? CI/CD?
Thanks, -Dalai- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dalai Felinto - da...@blender.org - www.blender.org Blender Development Coordinator Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands Op do 3 jun. 2021 om 18:43 schreef Sebastian Parborg via Bf-committers < bf-committers@blender.org>: > Just to keep everyone up to speed: > > We talked a bit more on blender.chat and currently we are a bit sceptical > if we should go with gitlab as we might want to use some of its premium > features. Those are not part of the open source core, so that means > those are not free and open source software. > > Therefore we are still going to evaluate other alternatives as well and > see which one gives us as much freedom and features as possible. > > Regards, > Sebastian Parborg > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 11:26:35AM +0200, Ton Roosendaal via Bf-committers > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I regularly have discussions with people around me about our > > infrastructure. For as long Blender has been open source, almost 20 > > years, I've always pushed for the highest level of independence from > > external service providers, specifically when it comes to our core > > activities. > > > > That comes at a price though. I'm aware of the great set of tools that > > are being offered by Github nowadays. They make a good product. But I > > also see how such services take away essential freedoms from developers. > > If your activities becomes cloud based (compiling, testing, debugging, > > deploying) you allow a lot of control over your project by a third party. > > > > This doesn't make Github bad by itself, please use it if you wish. It > > just means (for us) to keep the focus on our mission - which is to > > further the freedom for everyone to make and use open source 3D > > technology. That freedom applies to artists as well as developers. Or > > said differently; > > > > - everyone should have the freedom to develop Blender and participate in > > blender.org projects. > > > > From the information I have, Gitlab seems to offer exactly what we need > > for Blender to remain independent, keep up with the latest trends for > > engineering and to offer this to an online community with a free/open > > source license. > > > > I look forward to a further investigation of this topic. Meanwhile I can > > reach out to Gitlab to check on what support they're willing to offer to > us. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Ton- > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org > > Chairman Blender Foundation, CEO Blender Institute / Studio > > Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands > > > > > > On 31/05/2021 18:26, Sergey Sharybin via Bf-committers wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just wanted to let everyone know that today Phacility announced that > > > development of Phabricator is phasing out [1] [2]. > > > > > > This does not affect the Blender project immediately, but we need to > find a > > > solution to the situation (be it a fork of Phabricator, or be it a > > > migration to some other platform). There is no plan of action yet, it > will > > > be looked into in the coming time. We will keep you posted with > updates on > > > the topic. > > > > > > Would like to mention that Sebastian Parborg together with Dalai are > > > working on a plan of action. At some point we'll share it with Blender > > > developers, triagers, and the community. So don't be surprised :) > > > > > > [1] > > > > https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/ > > > [2] https://secure.phabricator.com/ > > > > > > Best regards, > > > - Sergey - > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Sergey Sharybin - ser...@blender.org - www.blender.org > > > Principal Software Engineer, Blender > > > Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
