[Mailman-Developers] Moving to git and gitlab

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue May 12 15:03:04 CEST 2015


Aamir Khan writes:

 > > There are also reasons why we might want to move off of Launchpad.  Most
 > > compelling is that Launchpad is difficult or impossible to use for code
 > > hosting by our Indian colleagues.
 > 
 > Reason being bzr is too slow, right? Or, are there more reasons to
 > it?

Lack of HTTPS support.  Apparently many[1] Indian organizations block
outgoing connections to port 22, so ssh connections aren't feasible.



Footnotes: 
[1]  FVO "many" == at least the University one of our frequent
contributors attends. :-)



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