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Re:A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab by afarrell on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @06:23PM (#14353849)
... To a certain degree, sure.

But having to stop working on the thing you're building in order to learn someone else's toolchain, build a fix and (and this is key) persuade another organization that a fix is valuable is incredibly expensive.

Re:A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab by jjawssd on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @07:43PM (#14354360)
The KDE guys blew through several build systems before finally settling on cmake. It was a wild ride.