Private Repositories

[bnmurphy]

We need to come up with the best arrangement for overcoming the limit of 5 private repositories. I've had to create my first public repo today, and I have 3 or 4 more that would be nice to make.

Whoever wants to upgrade their account should be fully reimbursed by a grant, but there are many projects. It's probably best that I upgrade since they can all be related to the cloud model development.

[sebarn]

my current work-around to this is: I put all the low-priority stuff into bitbucket, because it comes with unlimited private repos (the limitation is the number of collaborators). transferring repos is easy: it's just another cloning operation and there's an wizard.

A centralized upgraded account would be nice, though the pricing is pretty steep. Depending on the number of collaborators, bitbucket might be cheaper than github (?). Also, do you think we could get money for this from the Bert Bolin Research Area 2?

A third alternative: we could try to qualify as an open source project (are we open source?). then everything would be free.

[bnmurphy]

Both ideas are good. I haven't started an account on bitbucket yet, but I should.

We are DEFINITELY all open source. I haven't seen a way to start that qualification process though. How does that work?

[jinhyokh]

Open source alternative like gitlab looks good. But somebody has to maintain it.

[jinhyokh]

I spent some time looking at the possibilities of hosting an open source github alternative. My conclusion is that hosting an open source will require substantial time to maintain. It may be easy to install once, but the open source ones are evolving rapidly and their old versions are not supported in a short time after their release, making server vulnerable to problems of having bugs and security issues.

How about just consolidating all PMCAMx repositories into one big repository by putting each project into its own folder. This may be a stupid but easy solution.