Re: Migrate away from vger to GitHub or (on-premise) GitLab?

> On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 04:28:58PM +0100, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> On 2024-02-04 16:12, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 12:50:04PM +0100, 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.
>> > >
>> > because they positively *are*.
>> >
>> > when i started, patch-based code reviews were the norm, and i'm still
>> > using them for my small project with almost no external contributions.
>> >
>> >
>> > but after working with gerrit code review for over a decade, i find it
>> > mind-boggling that people are still voluntarily subjecting themselves
>> > to mail-based reviews for serious high-volume work.
>> >
>> > it doesn't matter just how super-proficient you got with your old
>> > tools.  there is just no way you'll get anywhere near as efficient as
>> > you would with the new ones, if you just were interested enough to
>> > learn them.  migrating the workflows that are worth keeping isn't such
>> > a bit deal.
>> 
>> Please, keep in mind that not everyone lives in a web browser and
>> loves to click around.  Some people simply prefer to use the CLI
>> utilities and to press the keys on their keyboards, and are very
>> efficient while doing that.
> 
> The forge vendors found out, and started to provide CLI tools. That's
> not really a general argument against forge software. Just as people
> living on web is not general argument against e-mail - it's been 
> brought
> to the web a long time ago.