Moving the git hosting for the r-b website

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Hello RB folks,


During the last day of the Summit, a small Working Group was set up to
handle the move of the canonical location of the
https://reproducible-builds.org website (currently on salsa.debian.org)
to somewhere else.

The goals of the move are mainly:
 * have an easier sign-up for new contributors (Salsa has restricted
   registrations that can easily take up days, and it HAS been proven
   detrimental for new contributors)
 * have the website hosted on a more neutral place, since the
   Reproducible Builds project nowadays is independent of Debian and
   their internal processes



We picked Codeberg [0] as our repository hosting platform of choice:

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting
and other services for free and open source projects, itself based on
fully FOSS code (Forgejo, itself based on Gitea), which aligns perfectly
with our broad FOSS values.
It has all the features we need for our simple needs, including CI and
(still under consideration) static web hosting.

It also includes a seamless import feature from other code forges,
allowing to import the whole git history as well as merge requests and
issues from salsa in a very straightforward way.
We used this feature to import the webiste on
https://codeberg.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website
(temporary, will re-import!).


For now, our current plan is only to move the git repository of the
website.  We foresee this to be the starting to also move all the other
git repositories that are not Debian-specific out of salsa.debian.org at
a later date.

We are also currently evaluating potential options regarding the website
building and publishing, in particular the "codeberg pages" feature
(although it's advertised as being in "maintenance mode"). In the
meantime, this part will stay on jenkins.debian.net.



Please let us know your thoughts or any potential objections regarding
this transition by December 1st 2025, after which will go ahead with
this.




for the Website Migration WG,
Mattia
Robin
Eric
Gabor


[0] For completeness, we were initially thinking of going to GitHub,
mainly to leverage their huge user base and have the lowest possibly
friction for new contributors, but we changed our mind on that. GitHub
has proven to run in a way that goes against base FOSS principles, and
nowadays is actively trying to discredit copyleft in general. See
https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ for more details.  We've also
found Codeberg to be remarkably easy to get started with, so there seems
to be little reason to consider compromising with a less values-aligned
platform!



-- 
regards,
                        Mattia Rizzolo

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