[kde-community] Have repo maintainers opt-in for github mirroring (was: Re: Official KDE mirror on github)

[Ivan Čukić]

We should probably put something like LLVM guys did in the project
description instead of actually having the real description.

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm
> Mirror of official llvm git repository located at
> http://llvm.org/git/llvm. Updated every five minutes.
> http://llvm.org

Cheers,
Ivan

Cheerio,
Ivan

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On 18 September 2015 at 23:09, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>> On 18 September 2015 at 22:37, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
>>> <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am Freitag, 18. September 2015, 17:12:12 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta:
>>>>> Ladies and gentlemen, as you read this mail github.com/kde is being
>>>>> populated by the initial sync of all repositories.
>>>>
>>>> Pardon for the late input, missed the dynamic of the people behind this idea
>>>> (and actually expected it would be shot down, at least to me it seems not a
>>>> good idea to add value to a proprietary platform by also adding our source
>>>> code there).
>>>>
>>>> Can we please only mirror those projects whose maintainers are okay with the
>>>> added workload due to another public interface which allows interaction from
>>>> 3rd-party? Too many people will not get that this is only a mirror, even if
>>>> you put it in bold there. Or worse, not accept it is a mirror, because their
>>>> time is more valueable than the time of the maintainers of course.
>>>>
>>>> I have no time (and actually also no interest) to care for people poking via
>>>> github (incl. the time needed to redirect them to the real official KDE
>>>> infrastructure and any bad vibrations because having to argue why I/we do not
>>>> support github really). Other people might have that time and interest, so
>>>> their decision.
>>>> But I don't. I joined KDE for some reason and am doing my FLOSS software
>>>> development here, because of certain values.
>>>> Same would be true for sourceforge.net, gitlab.com, code.google.com (okay,
>>>> dead) or whereever else some people think we should mirror because it's where
>>>> "the people" are currently.
>>>>
>>>> So as maintainer I would like to have at least the repos of Okteta,
>>>> libkoralle, cagibi removed from the official KDE github page.
>>>
>>> Sorry, but an incomplete mirror would cost additional effort to
>>> maintain, as sysadmin would have to maintain a list of repositories
>>> which were blacklisted.
>>> Note that because a chunk of the code that drives this is in bash, it
>>> is not easy to create such a list easily.
>>>
>>> Additionally, an incomplete mirror would be confusing to those who
>>> expect the mirror to be complete - so this blacklist would result in
>>> Sysadmin receving queries of "why isn't this repository on Github?".
>>>
>>
>> Wouldn't lack of opt-in from Friedrich just mean that the bot will be
>> enabled with a friendly note (i.e. the default)?
>> Allright, he (and his projects' members) won't be 'spammed'.
>>
>>> I suggest you instead put a clear notice in the README file noting
>>> that patches and other code contributions should be submitted via our
>>> usual infrastructure.
>>
>> This addition to README.md could be hopefully scripted in a clever way
>> as we have so many projects.
>> Myself I use README.md files for some time as KF5 do, so replacing
>> these a whole README.md with a standard disclaimer is not an option;
>> just saying, I know you did not mean replacing of couse.
>> I'd welcome a nicely crafted template.
>
> +1. Note that Phabricator, once we roll it out will also display the
> content of README.md files - so please ensure such a template is
> crafted in such a way that people can clearly understand what is meant
> if they're browsing the repository via Phabricator in the future.
>
>>
>> --
>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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