On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Ole Streicher wrote: > Pirate Praveen <prav...@onenetbeyond.org> writes: > >> Debian needs feature X but it is already in the e.nterprise version. We > >> make > >> a patch and for commercial reasons it never gets merged (they already sell > >> it > >> in the enterprise version). Which means we will have to fork the software > >> and > >> keep those patches forever. Been there done that. For me, that isn't > >> acceptable. > >> I don't want another Nagios. > > > > I agree this is a legitimate concern. I have asked Gitlab Inc for their > > policy on merge requests to Gitlab CE for features already in Gitlab EE. > > Based on their reply, we can decide how to proceed. If their reply is > > positive, I will ask them to make it public, and we can go ahead with a > > debian.net instance of Gitlab. If their reply is negative, we can drop > > gitlab and consider Pagure (second best option). > > We do patching as part of our daily packaging already: to replace (or > circumvent) non-dfsg functionality, to integrate into our environment, > and everything else that upstream is not willing or able to apply > himself but is good in our opinion. Depending on the package, you may > find huge patches for our packages > > I would not see why a missing functionality of gitlab would be different > here. Given my personal expericence with so called opencore software, I do.
Alex
