[kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Martin Sandsmark
<martin.sandsmark at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:35:09PM +0530, Bhushan Shah wrote:
>> In my opinion first two are too wrong arguments to begin with.. If our
>> repositories can not be found from outside then it requires
>> improvement from our side. Putting source code on Github is not going
>> to solve this problem.
>
> I don't think improving discoverability of our own infrastructure and putting
> mirrors of our code on Github are mutually exclusive. I think both will
> improve our "visibility" so to speak.

Agreed here. This was a big part of why we (sysadmin) wanted a unified
tool for many things to replace Chiliproject (projects.kde.org) as it
simplifies quite a few things.

>
>
>> Even if people will use github to search projects eventually they will have
>> to use our infrastructure to contribute.
>
> In my opinion all of our projects should have a short description about how
> and where to send us their patches, even if we don't push things to Github.
> If we ensure that our git repositories can be found via search engines people
> still need to know how to contribute.

In the event of a mirror being setup we'll ensure the repository
description on Github has more than adequate information for people on
where to go to send their contribution in, as well as some general
addresses to contact if people get confused / lost.

>
> And I think lowering the threshold for people to contribute in general is
> also something that should be done (and is being worked on already), and is a
> bit separate from this thing about mirroring stuff on Github.

Yes, you'll be hearing more on this soon...

>
>
>> And about people being surprised that our code is not on Github, it is
>> really clear that Github is _not_ standard place to get open source
>> software.
>
> We might think so, but I don't think the rest of the world agrees.
>
>
>> So, In short IMO there is nothing wrong with having Github mirror but
>> that should be read-only and we should have real reason to do it.
>> Currently sysadmins are reworking our git infrastructure. So lets wait
>> little bit and see how it goes and then think of this.
>
> Yeah, I agree that the reworking of our own infrastructure should be
> prioritized, and we should disable the pull requests, bug reporting, etc. for
> everything we put on github.

This is how I intended to do things in any case :)

>
> --
> Martin Sandsmark

Regards,
Ben

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