[kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On Saturday, 19 September 2015, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shantanu at kde.org>
wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>
wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, September 18, 2015 5:29:01 PM CEST Albert Vaca wrote:
>> > From my experience, I was already mirroring KDE Connect in Github and
I've
>> > received valuable patches there. That's a big enough reason for me to
want
>> > Github's pull requests (and to spend 15 minutes learning how to use
them),
>> > but I understand not everybody wants to learn a new and non-free tool.
>>
>> I'm subscribed to kde-connects review requests for reviewboard. How am I
as an
>> interested developer able to follow the code review for github pull
requests
>> if I don't want to use them?
>>
>> Basically by the decision to opt-in for pull requests you force the
complete
>> team to follow them. Otherwise not-reviewed code gets in.
>>
>> We really need to think in the big picture of what means this to KDE. We
>> shouldn't go the "selfish" road and think of your own project. By
allowing
>> github pull-requests we are pushing out the contributors who don't want
to use
>> it. You make it impossible for those contributors to comment on review
>> requests, thus you have split the development.
>>
>> This is scary. Please don't think "selfish". Let people create the pull
>> request and answer it with:
>> "Sorry we do not support git hub pull request. To submit code please use
>> reviewboard.kde.org. Here's how you do it..."
>>
>> The point is we want to get to the people on github. That's why we
mirror.
>> It's not about getting pull requests. We want the people! They already
spent
>> the effort to create the patch, they will spent the additional time to
get to
>> reviewboard of phabricator in future. I have so often got patches on
bugzilla
>> and it never was a problem to tell them "please use reviewboard for the
patch
>> submission as the UI is more streamlined for code review". We always got
the
>> patch into reviewboard. The aim of the people is not to use pull
requests, the
>> aim is to submit their patch!
>
> +1 to that. And adding to it, IMO the most important thing here is
consistency. The last thing we want to have is newcomers getting confused
"erm, so for this KDE project do I use reviewboard? or do I create a pull
request?".
>


But you just got confused by the claim from Martin, use of github reviews
isn't proposed also because our repos are readonly there!
Please read what I propose not strawmans...

>>
>> Cheers
>> Martin
>>
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> Cheers,
>
> --
> Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
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