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Much of the free-software development world has adopted Git forges (such as
GitHub, GitLab, or sourcehut) with enthusiasm. The kernel community has
not. Reasons for that reticence vary, but one that is often heard is that
these forges simply don’t work well at the scale needed for the kernel
project. At a
Kernel-Summit session during the 2021
Linux Plumbers conference, Donald Zickus and Prarit Bhargava sought to
show how Red Hat has put GitLab to good use to support its kernel team.
Not only can these forges work for kernel development, they said, but
moving to a forge can bring a number of advantages.