GitHub

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Dan Meltzer
<parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
> The downside to any of these options is that we still need to merge
> back to svn at some point.  As many know, this usually ends up being
> more work than it's worth.  Until kde supports git officially svn is
> going to be the point of contact for new contributters and should
> remain so to prevent a duplication of accounts and a horrid mess when
> it comes to translations.
>
> On 1/7/09, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
>> On 6 Jan 2009, at 23:05, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> Leo Franchi wrote:
>>>> On 6 Jan 2009, at 22:04, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>>>>> Please understand that I'm not totally down on Github...it has its
>>>>> place, and works very well for some things, especially for small
>>>>> personal projects.  But I've also had to do lots of dealing with
>>>>> what
>>>>> happens when things go wrong with its model, which starts to break
>>>>> down
>>>>> and make things harder when people are doing more than sending
>>>>> just a
>>>>> patch or two, especially if they are not sharing an account.
>>>>>
>>>>> If Amarok people want to use Github, that's fine; but I would very
>>>>> strongly recommend that everyone then share an account for Amarok
>>>>> development work.  It's also worth noting that Github is closed
>>>>> source,
>>>>> so if people are uncomfortable with that, they should be looking at
>>>>> Gitorious or some such thing.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So all that said:
>>>>
>>>> what do you recommend for us?
>>>
>>> I recommend, if Github is used, that we all share an account.
>>>
>>> Whether Github should be used at all is a matter that the group will
>>> have to decide.  It provides some ease of use in terms of setup, but
>>> makes things more complicated for anyone outside the project that
>>> wants
>>> to track our work while providing patches of their own.
>>
>> I meant what are the non-github options? Coming from the relative git
>> n00b that I am, are the choices github OR we host our own git server
>> on kollide? Whats the  benefit of doing github we can easily just make
>> our own server do the same and not have all those nasty issues that
>> you mention?
>>
>> leo
>>
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>> Tufts University 2010
>>
>> lfranchi at kde.org
>> leonardo.franchi at tufts.edu
>>
Couldn't we ask nicely if the k.o admins would consider hosting a git
server at least for extragear projects that aren't tied to KDE's
schedule anyway?