[kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

[Eike Hein]

On 09/19/2015 04:04 PM, Vishesh Handa wrote:
> This is the part of your email I really like. Though this is not what
> you meant: If projectX choose to also use Github, it is not affecting
> your project in anyway. Just ignore it and move on.

You keep reiterating this, but it's simply not true:

* Disagreement on whether to use GitHub or not can extend
  into the sub-community around a given project and cause
  strife there.

* Some of our project sub-communities have many maintainers
  for smaller sub-projects that comprise the larger project,
  and these sub-projects need to collaborate for consistency.

  The topology of 'project' is not a match to our repository
  topology, which is incidental and an implementation detail.
  It's not possible to cleanly turn GitHub on or off along
  the - ever-shifting - social boundaries involved.

* Different per-project tooling definitely creates pressures
  on projects to provide the same tooling as other projects.
  We've got practical experiences with this from our trial
  runs with gerrit and Phabricator.

* 'Common ownership' in the Manifesto is a core value that
  e.g. begats shared workflows like our shared developer
  account application process and our shared repository
  access model. This stuff is important. It's hard to main-
  tain the idea of common ownership if we create barriers
  for people moving within the project by fragmenting our
  core workflows. If someone doesn't want to work with Git-
  Hub they're barred from stepping up and maintaining
  project X that's using GitHub by a previous maintainer's
  decision, unless they do the work to reverse that decision,
  which can get us back to the first bullet.



Cheers,
Eike