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title = "Planning to orphan Pagure on Debian"
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author = ["Sergio Durigan Junior"]
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date = 2024-02-25T22:23:00-05:00
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tags = ["english", "debian", "free-software"]
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I have been thinking more and more about orphaning the [Pagure Debian
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package](https://tracker.debian.org/pagure). I don't have the time to maintain it properly anymore, and
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I have also lost interest in doing so.
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## What's Pagure {#what-s-pagure}
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[Pagure](https://pagure.io/pagure) is a git forge written entirely in Python using pygit2. It was
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almost entirely developed by one person, Pierre-Yves Chibon. He is
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(was?) a Red Hat employee and started working on this new git forge
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almost 10 years ago because the company wanted to develop something
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in-house for Fedora. The software is amazing and I admire Pierre-Yves
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quite a lot for what he was able to achieve basically alone.
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Unfortunately, a few years ago Fedora [decided](https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/making-a-git-forge-decision/) to move to Gitlab and
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the Pagure development pretty much stalled.
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## Pagure in Debian {#pagure-in-debian}
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Packaging Pagure for Debian was hard, but it was also very fun. I
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learned quite a bit about many things (packaging and non-packaging
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related), interacted with the upstream community, decided to dogfood
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my own work and run my Pagure instance for a while, and tried to get
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newcomers to help me with the package (without much success,
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unfortunately).
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I remember that when I had started to package Pagure, Debian was also
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moving away from Alioth and discussing options. For a brief moment
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Pagure was a contender, but in the end the community decided to
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self-host Gitlab, and that's why we have [Salsa](https://salsa.debian.org) now. I feel like I
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could have tipped the scales in favour of Pagure had I finished
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packaging it for Debian before the decision was made, but then again,
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to the best of my knowledge Salsa doesn't use our Gitlab package
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anyway...
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## Are you interested in maintaining it? {#are-you-interested-in-maintaining-it}
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If you're interested in maintaining the package, please get in touch
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with me. I will happily pass the torch to someone else who is still
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using the software and wants to keep it healthy in Debian. If there
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is nobody interested, then I will just orphan it.
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