On jue, 2025-02-27 at 10:05 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz via openSUSE Factory wrote:
On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 08:59 +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote:
On Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM CET, Fridrich Strba via openSUSE Factory wrote:
Now, I am only a hired hand and I will have to live with whatever comes my way. But the free time contributor that now has to spend days/weeks to change habits might be tempted to go to see elsewhere.
That’s one possibility. The other one (and I hope it will be so) is that volunteers will finally free to forget everything about this weird one-off proprietary VCS and use git (and use git-based tools and integrations) for everything as they wanted to do for ages.
I really have a hard time believing that OBS is what kept some people back from contributing to openSUSE.
Have you tried contributing to Debian? It's far more cumbersome and bureaucratic, and yet they someone manage to attract many contributors.
OBS is far better than it's reputation, especially when compared to what other distributions have to offer. There is a reason why many other projects use OBS for building their packages even for non-SUSE distributions.
As far as I know, OBS will be still a big part of the workflow. gitea will be used to handle the code, changes, etc. and OBS is used for building packages. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it will still be possible to create projects in OBS and add packages there. The main difference with the source in gitea is that it won't be as easy as "osc branch" or "osc linkpac", but I'm sure that when the new workflow is working there will be a lot of tooling appearing, like new git plugins, osc plugins or implemented as core functionality in osc. Regards.