On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 5:06 PM David Kaufmann <as...@ionic.at> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:38:16PM +0100, Leigh Griffin wrote: > > The decision is made and we are proceeding to engage with Gitlab and > > unfortunately that won't be reversed as a decision. > > I haven't expected this situation, so I've read up a bit on the whole > thing. > > From the outside it looks that the CPE team is trying since about a year > to get rid of as many services as possible, due to having not enough > resources to handle all. (I've only been looking at devel@ and blog > posts, there is not much else I could find about the CPE team) > We are trying to reduce the total ownership of the team to allow us to provide value on initiatives that are requested of us by our stakeholders. > > The problem I think I see is, that there seems to be no option of giving > away responsibilities - the only advances I see are either "we'll > replace this with something we think is easier" or "lets turn it off". > > I see one exception: Fedocal, where this list has been asked, if someone > wants to take over. Unfortunately that seems to be stuck due to > bureaucracy. > Unfortunately GDPR means we cannot give away application data, the applications themselves are free and open for the community to take and standup and offer to the community at large. > What I don't understand is, why a decision this big is not taken by > FESCo (or Council) and the CentOS Governing Board itself. > Neither run the git forge, CPE run it and we asked both Communities for input as to what our next steps should be. > > After all in the Blogpost about how the CPE team is planning to do > things[1], it is stated: > "Our intention is to run all of the apps through the Fedora Council > first, in case the Council prefers any specific alternatives to a > particular service or app." > And we done that and shared intentions around Pagure (and several other apps) and in the case of Pagure it led to a requirements gathering exercise to decide on the appropriate direction to take. > > (I'm also not sure why the article states the Council directly, and not > FESCo) > We engage with Council who in turn may decide to engage with other groups including FESCo > > It sure feels like the CPE is not bound by either FESCo, CentOS > Governing Board or Fedora Council - this whole thing feels quite > arbitrary. We take their input and guidance very seriously and they guide and shape our backlog of initiatives to work on. > Maybe it would be wiser to consider this as a formal error and > either re-do the decision process or hand the decision off to the Fedora > Council and the CentOS Governing Board (maybe as a joint decision?) > Ultimately CPE have to run the application, so if your scenario is to come to pass, both Fedora Council and CentOS Board will need to invest time and resourcing into the running and maintenance of a Git forge solution. They are also not the only stakeholders here. > [1] > https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/application-service-categories-and-community-handoff/ > > All the best, > David > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Leigh Griffin Engineering Manager Red Hat Waterford <https://www.redhat.com/> Communications House Cork Road, Waterford City lgrif...@redhat.com M: +353877545162 IM: lgriffin @redhatjobs <https://twitter.com/redhatjobs> redhatjobs <https://www.facebook.com/redhatjobs> @redhatjobs <https://instagram.com/redhatjobs> <https://red.ht/sig>
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