Re: github purchased by micro$oft

I don't have much fear that microsoft will break github in the
sort-mid term and I don't have a strong opinion about moving.

Just wanted to point out that gitlab now offers their Ultimate and
Gold packages for free to open source projects

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/05/gitlab-ultimate-and-gold-free-for-education-and-open-source/

best regards
Alexander Kjäll
Den mån 4 juni 2018 kl 23:48 skrev Jorge Solórzano <jorsol(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
> Well, it's too early to know the new direction of Github, and I don't really think that Microsoft will mess up Github (at least not in the short-mid term).
>
> But anyway I like the idea of leave github for gitlab based the following reasons:
> * Github is not open source, GitLab is.
> * GitLab uses and promotes PostgreSQL, a perfect match to a PostgreSQL project.
> * Big projects like GNOME choose GitLab.
> * A more integrated CI and CD.
>
> The only issue I see is that all the travis jobs must be "ported" to gitlab-ci.yml (which might be easy or difficult since pgjdbc uses some tweaks in jobs).
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 12:09 PM Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> There is already a project on gitlab if we want to leave github.
>>
>> I'm not suggesting we do, but if things go south with the new owner we may want to consider it
>>
>>
>> Dave Cramer