integrating go-git-providers with a library like jenkins/go-scm to increase the number of supported git providers

[enekofb]

Heya

I would like to ask whether integrating go-git-providers with a library like jenkins/go-scm would be a solution that you would like to explore in order to increase the number of supported git providers.

An initial discovery of how this would look like could be seen in this pr

Thanks!

[yiannistri]

Hey Eneko,

Thanks for the suggestion. We think that pursuing a solution that utilises jenkins-x/go-scm is not optimal because:

• it is simpler to depend on SDK libraries that directly target the different git providers instead of going through an additional abstraction layer such as go-scm that itself targets the different git providers. After all, go-git-providers is itself an abstraction.
• SDK libraries (e.g google/go-github, xanzy/go-gitlab etc.) are well maintained and typically provide a wide set of features that we can choose to use whereas go-scm provides a smaller subset of features.

We (currently) lack support of Gitea and Azure Devops but we prefer to put our efforts on adding support for those providers through SDKs (where possible) than introducing go-scm to fill that gap.

Hope the above makes sense.

[enekofb]

Thanks, @yiannistri for taking the time to look at my suggestion and the reply. I could totally understand your point as maintainers.