On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, G1FEF via 44Net wrote:
ARDC do have a self hosted GitLab server, the board and the TAC/GAC are using it for document sharing and so on. I have just had a quick chat with Rosy and ARDC would be happy to setup an “official” public GitLab instance if the membership would find it useful?
Bit confused here:
already exists, so nothing needs creating. Just unticking the "keep everything sup3r s3cr3t" checkbox.
So I guess the question is, what would folk use it for?
Sure, for example:
1. I would like to collaboratively maintain the archive of historical ARDC/AMPRNet material so that it's not lost again---things like the 1980s address plan; and the original/ammended MoUs between Brian Kantor/ARDC and UCSD covering CAIDA's allowance to "collect, filter and curate data destined for the AMPRNet(tm)" [until July 2023].
For new employees, technical advertisers, or trustees, (and Hams/users in general) this would help in giving a much better overview and single "go-to" location. Ditto for the board minutes, that were being held back from release until the 2019 accounts had been filed.
2. We observe several support requests arranging at 44net@, mostly then batted off-list. This could be better handled via an issue tracker; and then tied to the resulting commits/updates to the routeing DB resulting from those requests.
3. Nat Morris did a bunch of research and tool development recently to find inconsistencies in the Whois/database/BGP advertisements---would be great to get those tools in the same place; and to fix/document the origin of the inconsistencies.
4. Unforunately ARDC is funding a *tonne* of stuff, all with an open-access requirement: the simplest way for Rosy/the board to enforce open-publication compliance is to require a mirror of the work to be uploaded to the AMPRNet Gitlab instance.
@Paul - You are right, I did setup a public repo on GitHub a while back as a platform to get the Portal code re-developed, but nothing ever came of it, so I deleted it.
Having Github.com/AMPRNet disappear is not a problem, /if/ the Portal code and other tools were now visibly self-hosted on AMPR Gitlab... However, checking just now, (I) can't see them.
..Chris: Are there any blockers (eg. next ~7 days) to making the existing Gitlab instance and its existing hosted repos openly available?
-Paul
(... ARDC is funding work on 44net/AMPRNet infrastructure, ... and ARDC funding /usually/ comes with an unambigious requirement that the fruits of that ARDC funding must be open-access/openly available).