[gnutls-help] guile-gnutls copy at codeberg

[Simon Josefsson]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> writes:

> On 2025-07-07 Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
>> Hi
>
>> I pushed the guile-gnutls git repository to codeberg:
>
>> https://codeberg.org/guile-gnutls/guile-gnutls
>
>> This is a manually maintained repository to explore if we could move
>> guile-gnutls to codeberg.  What do you think?
>
>> I feel I don't have a lot authority over this project, so I don't know
>> if there are any opinions on this -- I tried to cc some possibly
>> relevant people (sorry if I missed anyone, anyone else on gnutls-help
>> feel free to chime in with opinions).  I'd like to co-maintain this
>> (send me your codeberg username), and I'm also okay reverting back to
>> gitlab if people think moving codeberg is a negative.
>
>> Further things I'm aware of:
> [ stuff that would need to resolved ]
>
> Hello Simon,
>
> you seem to to have elaborated in detail why the move might be hard, but the
> rationale for investing the effort seems to be missing. I guess this is
> about moving from a profit to a non-profit organisation?

I don't have any strong motivation beyond my own learning process -- if
people can articulate good reasons for or against, that would help
clarify things.  I like both savannah and gitlab actually, but many in
the guile and guix community (which are the main sources of
contributions to guile-gnutls) seems to be migrating projects to
codeberg.  I think some contributors has expressed a desire to not be on
gitlab.

What may actually have been more on my mind was that I recall seeing
that the gitlab GnuTLS group lost its OSS status recently, reverting it
back to free services, and I thought that archiving the guile-gnutls
project may somehow help to regain the premium features, making the
group easier to review for licensing.  This is not substantiated though.

I don't think moving is hard or require a lot of effort -- as far as I
know, the only things that matters are to decide how to handle gitlab
issue tracker, merge requests, release page and continuous integration.
There are is one simple way to handle that: make the guile-gnutls
project on gitlab a read-only project, and setup a gitlab mirror
repository for CI/CD purposes.  But we can keep both codeberg and
gitlab, which will probably need to happen for some time anyway.

What do you think about moving?  For debian packaging I don't think it
matters: the watch file downloads things from ftp.gnu.org, which I
suppose will continue.  Or do you have other concerns?

/Simon
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