Hi Alex, As I wrote earlier, we're open to making certain features available upon request. In the specific case of the feature that was discussed - could you please elaborate what is missing and what functionality is available on the Enterprise edition that you'd like to be made public? We want to better understand the use-case and the requirements to respond to this request.
Thanks, Eliran On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:53 AM Alexander Wirt <formo...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > > [adding gitlab folks in cc] > > > > On Saturday 11 June 2016 02:16 PM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > Hi Alex, > > > > GitLab folks have indicated their interest to consider solving access > > problems for debian (possibly releasing relevant code as Free Software > > if we are serious about using gitlab). They would like to have a call > > with relevant admins (since you being git.debian.org maintainer, your > > presence would be essential, if we were to do such a call). Would you be > > open to such a call? > I really prefer async communication like mail. > > Alex > > -- Best, Eliran
