Gogs port: A painless self-hosted Git service

[Torsten Zühlsdorff]

Aloha,

On 13.12.2015 12:49, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 13/12/2015 09:22, Yuri wrote:
>> Some time back it was a discussion on this ML about how to best submit
>> patches to FreeBSD ports and base system.
>> One of the problems standing in the way of improvements was the lack of
>> open source web software to manage public submissions.
>>
>> This problem is now addressed. I created a port for Gogs: "A painless
>> self-hosted Git service". It is the open source equivalent of GitHub,
>> with pretty much similar functionality.
>>
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205283
>>
>> Can FreeBSD use it for the pull requests? Maybe using git ⇆subversion
>> convertor?
>>
>> Anyway, Gogs is among the nicest web-based systems I saw.
>>
>
> Gogs looks pretty cool, and having it in the ports tree seems like a
> very good idea to me.  However, there's a big difference between
> 'working like github' and 'being github.'
>
> The big advantage of being able to use pull requests on Github is that
> so many people who work on open source projects are already setup to use
> Github.  They've already jumped through all the hoops necessary for them
> to be able to easily clone a repo, develop some changes and submit them
> back to the original project.  Having a low barrier to entry like that
> is a really big deal.
>
> Now, once a pull request has been submitted, so long as it gets dealt
> with somehow, that will satisfy the original submitter.  It doesn't just
> have to be merged into the cloned repository on github directly.
>
> There was some talk about taking each pull request and automatically
> feeding the diffs into Phabricator[+] and/or raising tickets in
> Bugzilla[*] which would be a really neat thing, but it hasn't happened
> yet.  Anyone coming up with workable code to be able to do that would be
> welcomed with cries of joy.

I did this often for different processes. I won't work on the issue this 
year - there is do much open to do.

But please write me a desired workflow and the needed requirements and 
i will do this in the next year. Just 3 weeks to go :D

Greetings,
Torsten