Dear community members,

We would like to take some next steps in improving usability and general decision making for our community and are interested in your thoughts and suggestions.

The first step is a decision regarding our version control and workflows associated with it. Contributions to new features and general improvements for oVirt outside of Red Hat have been rare and we would like to hear from you if we could simplify this process for you. One suggestion we have is that we could simplify the contribution process and improve the contributor experience by moving our repositories to GitHub or GitLab.

Currently, our Gerrit (gerrit.ovirt.org) instance is mirrored to GitHub and we already have several repositories that are exclusively developed there, including their CI running on GitHub Actions, for example:
* https://github.com/oVirt/go-ovirt-client
* https://github.com/oVirt/512-byte-vm

There are also various related projects that run on GitLab, such as:
* https://gitlab.com/qemu-project
* https://gitlab.com/libvirt

One recent project that moved from Gerrit to GitLab with a very similar discussion is mediawiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation/Discussion_summary

Once we hear more of your thoughts around this and if the decision falls on moving to either GitHub or GitLab, our plan would be to start changing existing workflows and CI project by project as it makes sense. Both platforms offer similar features. Two key points that stand out for us are that:
* GitLab is open source while GitHub isn't
* GitHub is more visible which allows contributors to amplify their contributions and raise their profile by contributing to various big projects, including oVirt

We are looking forward to hearing your thoughts,
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