Subject: Interview request about Gitea managed hosting
Hi,
My name is Loïc Dachary. I'm a Free Software developer and daily user of software forges for the past twenty years. I started contributing to Gitea[0] last year, primarily to implement federation. I met Aravinth Manivannan who has the same focus and we decided to work on a Free Software stack to facilitate Gitea managed hosting. It is in the very early stages but we are committed to radical transparency and you can read all about it[1].
- Why do you need my help?
Your experience managing one or more Gitea instance for the benefit of the client of your organization is precious. We need to hear about it, in your own words, so we can better understand how and if we can come up with solutions that would actually help you. In a nutshell we're trying very hard to make sure we'll be working on something that can actually help with problems you experienced first hand.
- Ok, how does that work?
We just need an hour of your time to part in a 60 minutes online interview which will be recorded and transcribed.
- What happens after the interview?
A transcript of the conversation will be sent for you to approve. You also get to decide if it is published for everyone to see or if it is only shared among the people participating in the project.
- How will this help me?
With these interviews we can better understand the mental model of a system administrator managing Gitea instances for their clients and implement a conceptual model that is a good match[2]. The software will be released without any delay under a Free Software license and will bet an additional tool for you to facilitate your daily work.
- OK, I want to help. Now what happens?
Scheduling an interview is simple: just reply to this message.
Sincerely,
[0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Arealaravinth+is%3Aclosed [1] https://git.batsense.net/Z/ and https://discourse.gitea.io/t/gitea-software-as-a-service-offering/4608 [2] https://uxmag.com/articles/the-secret-to-designing-an-intuitive-user-experience