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+* DONE Planning to orphan Pagure on Debian     :english:debian:free_software:
+CLOSED: [2024-02-25 Sun 22:23]
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+I have been thinking more and more about orphaning the [[https://tracker.debian.org/pagure][Pagure Debian
+package]].  I don't have the time to maintain it properly anymore, and
+I have also lost interest in doing so.
+
+** What's Pagure
+
+[[https://pagure.io/pagure][Pagure]] is a git forge written entirely in Python using pygit2.  It was
+almost entirely developed by one person, Pierre-Yves Chibon.  He is
+(was?) a Red Hat employee and started working on this new git forge
+almost 10 years ago because the company wanted to develop something
+in-house for Fedora.  The software is amazing and I admire Pierre-Yves
+quite a lot for what he was able to achieve basically alone.
+Unfortunately, a few years ago Fedora [[https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/making-a-git-forge-decision/][decided]] to move to Gitlab and
+the Pagure development pretty much stalled.
+
+** Pagure in Debian
+
+Packaging Pagure for Debian was hard, but it was also very fun.  I
+learned quite a bit about many things (packaging and non-packaging
+related), interacted with the upstream community, decided to dogfood
+my own work and run my Pagure instance for a while, and tried to get
+newcomers to help me with the package (without much success,
+unfortunately).
+
+I remember that when I had started to package Pagure, Debian was also
+moving away from Alioth and discussing options.  For a brief moment
+Pagure was a contender, but in the end the community decided to
+self-host Gitlab, and that's why we have [[https://salsa.debian.org][Salsa]] now.  I feel like I
+could have tipped the scales in favour of Pagure had I finished
+packaging it for Debian before the decision was made, but then again,
+to the best of my knowledge Salsa doesn't use our Gitlab package
+anyway...
+
+** Are you interested in maintaining it?
+
+If you're interested in maintaining the package, please get in touch
+with me.  I will happily pass the torch to someone else who is still
+using the software and wants to keep it healthy in Debian.  If there
+is nobody interested, then I will just orphan it.
+
 * DONE Migrating my repositories to Forgejo  :english:selfhost:free_software:
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+title = "Planning to orphan Pagure on Debian"
+author = ["Sergio Durigan Junior"]
+date = 2024-02-25T22:23:00-05:00
+tags = ["english", "debian", "free-software"]
+draft = false
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+
+I have been thinking more and more about orphaning the [Pagure Debian
+package](https://tracker.debian.org/pagure).  I don't have the time to maintain it properly anymore, and
+I have also lost interest in doing so.
+
+
+## What's Pagure {#what-s-pagure}
+
+[Pagure](https://pagure.io/pagure) is a git forge written entirely in Python using pygit2.  It was
+almost entirely developed by one person, Pierre-Yves Chibon.  He is
+(was?) a Red Hat employee and started working on this new git forge
+almost 10 years ago because the company wanted to develop something
+in-house for Fedora.  The software is amazing and I admire Pierre-Yves
+quite a lot for what he was able to achieve basically alone.
+Unfortunately, a few years ago Fedora [decided](https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/making-a-git-forge-decision/) to move to Gitlab and
+the Pagure development pretty much stalled.
+
+
+## Pagure in Debian {#pagure-in-debian}
+
+Packaging Pagure for Debian was hard, but it was also very fun.  I
+learned quite a bit about many things (packaging and non-packaging
+related), interacted with the upstream community, decided to dogfood
+my own work and run my Pagure instance for a while, and tried to get
+newcomers to help me with the package (without much success,
+unfortunately).
+
+I remember that when I had started to package Pagure, Debian was also
+moving away from Alioth and discussing options.  For a brief moment
+Pagure was a contender, but in the end the community decided to
+self-host Gitlab, and that's why we have [Salsa](https://salsa.debian.org) now.  I feel like I
+could have tipped the scales in favour of Pagure had I finished
+packaging it for Debian before the decision was made, but then again,
+to the best of my knowledge Salsa doesn't use our Gitlab package
+anyway...
+
+
+## Are you interested in maintaining it? {#are-you-interested-in-maintaining-it}
+
+If you're interested in maintaining the package, please get in touch
+with me.  I will happily pass the torch to someone else who is still
+using the software and wants to keep it healthy in Debian.  If there
+is nobody interested, then I will just orphan it.