On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:42 AM Stasiek Michalski <stasiek(a)michalski.cc> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:26 AM Stasiek Michalski <stasiek(a)michalski.cc>
wrote:
>
> Why is it disappointing? The Pagure project isn't suddenly being
> removed from the internet. Is there a reason you can't contribute to
> it to add the features you need?
I can add features, sure, and I do, but I am also not able or willing to
maintain everything else that goes with Pagure. My disappointment is
much more of a manifestation of a fear that if CPE ends up going with
Gitlab, there will be nobody else interested enough to maintain it,
since Fedora will no longer have any interest in it.
That's a reasonable fear. However, the only way to guarantee that
fear becomes reality is to walk away from the project out of fear.
Open source works because people contribute. If you want the project
to live, keep contributing. You can always reassess who is
contributing and what the health of the Pagure community is as you go.
Others have said they want to see it succeed, so hopefully they'll
also contribute. If they don't, and Pagure stagnates, then maybe the
interest wasn't in building something, it was in having somebody else
build it for them.
josh