[kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

Valentin Rusu valir at kde.org
Mon Aug 17 22:01:02 BST 2015


* Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com> [2015-08-17 08:54:18 +0200]:

> On Monday 17 August 2015 07:46:44 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > Hi community,
> > 
> > 
> > I suggest that we:
> > * introduce an official mirror for all KDE repositories on github
> > * replace all existing (non-official) clones
> > * disallow pull-requests on github to not replace our development model by
> > a proprietary platform.
> 
> I'd say the main benefit of Github is that it makes it easy for the many 
> developers used to it to do a pull request - effectively widening our 
> potential contributor base. Some might send in one or two minor pull 
> requests, not being interested in becoming regular contributors, others might 
> be convinced, after a few patches, to join KDE and then get on our 
> infrastructure.

The pull requests are very easy to do on Github - but I already posted
about this and we clearly agreee about this. However, reading this,
Phabricator came into my mind. I suppose this Github work should also
integrate with it?


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Valentin Rusu
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