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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>So I just started the process of Incubating my project and moving it to the KDE infrastructure, I gained a modest level of visibility on Github and I'm a bit afraid of losing it. So a github mirror sounds like something interesting for me as I currently still provide my own github mirror.</div><div><br></div><div>For some projects not for all the issue tracker on github might be a smaller barrier to report issues as it doesn't require a separate login. Would it be possible to allow github logins to phabricator for non kde members?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Patrick <br><br></div><div>From: mgraesslin@kde.org<br>To: kde-community@kde.org<br>Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:14:19 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github<br><br><pre>On Monday, August 17, 2015 10:10:17 AM Jos van den Oever wrote:<br>> On Monday 17 August 2015 09:16:02 Martin Sandsmark wrote:<br>> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:35:09PM +0530, Bhushan Shah wrote:<br>> > > In my opinion first two are too wrong arguments to begin with.. If our<br>> > > repositories can not be found from outside then it requires<br>> > > improvement from our side. Putting source code on Github is not going<br>> > > to solve this problem.<br>> > <br>> > I don't think improving discoverability of our own infrastructure and<br>> > putting mirrors of our code on Github are mutually exclusive. I think both<br>> > will improve our "visibility" so to speak.<br>> > <br>> > > Even if people will use github to search projects eventually they will<br>> > > have<br>> > > to use our infrastructure to contribute.<br>> > <br>> > In my opinion all of our projects should have a short description about<br>> > how<br>> > and where to send us their patches, even if we don't push things to<br>> > Github.<br>> > If we ensure that our git repositories can be found via search engines<br>> > people still need to know how to contribute.<br>> <br>> Agree. This is a good idea regardless of mirroring on GitHub.<br>> <br>> A mandatory preamble in the README.md for each KDE project could go<br>> something like this:<br>> <br>> ==<br>> $name is a [KDE](<a href="https://www.kde.org/" target="_blank">https://www.kde.org/</a>) project. The source code for $name<br>> can be found at [$git.kde.org/$name](https://$git.kde.org/$name). KDE<br>> welcomes you to [join KDE](<a href="https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved</a>) and<br>> contribute to $name. You can report [issues and wishes]($git.kde.org/$name]<br>> (https://$git.kde.org/$name).<br>> <img style="float: right;" src="images/kdelogo.png" alt="KDE logo"/><br>> ==<br>> <br>> In this way, even if our repos are not completely indexed, the pagerank will<br>> increase a lot.<br> <br>and is also something we could actually install with the software.<br> <br>> <br>> > And I think lowering the threshold for people to contribute in general is<br>> > also something that should be done (and is being worked on already), and<br>> > is<br>> > a bit separate from this thing about mirroring stuff on Github.<br>> > <br>> > > And about people being surprised that our code is not on Github, it is<br>> > > really clear that Github is _not_ standard place to get open source<br>> > > software.<br>> > <br>> > We might think so, but I don't think the rest of the world agrees.<br>> > <br>> > > So, In short IMO there is nothing wrong with having Github mirror but<br>> > > that should be read-only and we should have real reason to do it.<br>> > > Currently sysadmins are reworking our git infrastructure. So lets wait<br>> > > little bit and see how it goes and then think of this.<br>> > <br>> > Yeah, I agree that the reworking of our own infrastructure should be<br>> > prioritized, and we should disable the pull requests, bug reporting, etc.<br>> > for everything we put on github.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> kde-community mailing list<br>> kde-community@kde.org<br>> <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community</a><br></pre><br>_______________________________________________
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