From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:36:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Migrate away from vger to GitHub or (on-premise) GitLab?
Message-ID: <46725c2b5defc9f819513700b66ffa86@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <20240202115004.GV9696@kitsune.suse.cz>

On 2024-02-02 12:50, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> Given the open nature of lore it should be feasible to provide
> additional interfaces on top of it that cater to people used to PRs
> on popular forge web UIs without hijacking the whole project and the
> existing tools and interfaces. For some reason people are set on
> replacing it as a whole, and removing the interfaces they personally
> don't use, calling them obosolete.
> 
> In a project with large numger of collaborators with varying 
> backgrounds
> that's not going to work well. There are many people working on git
> using different workflows, and adding support for new workflow by
> removing a number of existing ones will cause problems. The goal of
> changing the forge software should be to be more open, supporting more
> users with more varying workflows and needs, not less.

Totally agreed.  Augmenting the traditional interfaces and workflows,
instead of declaring them obsolete and killing them, should be the way
to go.  Having different options available is always good.