MVP: src-d/gitbase

[halcyondude]

[halcyondude]

I have a meeting scheduled for Monday 5/23 @ 10 am w/ Antonio Navarro Perez, one of the 2 maintainers of gitbase.

Agenda is to discuss what would be required to revive the project (either in place or in a fork), get builds working, and to understand the state of the project at the point at which it was retired a few years ago.

[halcyondude]

We had a great discussion, covering some of the use cases for gitbase, including landscape-graph. We're going to schedule another meeting to explore in concrete / tactical terms what next steps would be.

I gave an overview of the CNCF, project levels, and we discussed the Sandbox, open source community development, the history of gitbase leading up to the project going dormant a in 2019, and started to capture what would be required to bring things up to date and revive it. We covered what I consider to be massive potential for the project, as a broad set of scenarios and personas are enabled and helped should having a bitmap index for hundreds to thousands of git repos exposed as MySQL endpoint.

• There isn't something similar to fill this gap
• It uses established projects and contains well used libraries as well, such as go-git.
• The maintainers captured bodies of curated research, roadmap, and futures. Much of the thought leadership exhibited, rationale, and oftentimes missing collateral has been captured. This comprises a well-formed starting point for a revived project.
• gitbase and related libraries would require maintainers, contributors, and project governance guidance. All of these could be realized as part of a plan targeting joining the CNCF Sandbox.

@caniszczyk FYI