Sourceware Open Office Friday 16:00 UTC, A forge experiment?

[Mark Wielaard]

Friday Oct 11, 16:00 UTC
https://bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/mar-aom-dmo-fko
Using #overseers on irc.libera.chat as backup.

To get the right time in your local timezone:
$ date -d "Fri Oct 11 16:00 UTC 2024"

Sourceware relies on cooperation among a broad diversity of core
toolchain and developer tool projects, hackers, organizations, ideas,
and communication styles. The monthly Sourceware Open Office meetings
are one way of coming together as a community and discuss our shared
development infrastructure. For other ways to participate see
https://sourceware.org/mission.html#organization

Discussion topics:

The forgejo experiment. We aren't fully ready yet to, but are getting
close. Our aim is to launch when Forgejo v9.0 is released on Wednesday
16 October so we start with the latest freshest release:
https://forgejo.org/2024-09-preparing-v9/

The setup itself is an experiment and the initial setup will be fairly
minimal without email, bugzilla and ci integration. But we do want all
those features of course. We don't have an Ansible playbook yet, but
would like to have one eventually, so everybody can easily contribute
to the configuration and/or run their own forge experiment.

We should also discuss what policies we want for the experimental
setup. How do we approve new accounts/contributors, which rights do
they get, what is the retention policy? For the experiment we also need
volunteer maintainers who take what is done on the forge to the real
project repository and mailinglist. Lots of open questions and
processes to explore.

Some more background information:
Sourceware infrastructure after Cauldron - Forgejo experiment
https://inbox.sourceware.org/overseers/20240925004343.GR21963@gnu.wildebeest.org/