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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 19 de setembre de 2015, a les 16:23:26, Teo Mrnjavac va escriure:
> On Saturday, September 19, 2015 13:04:55 David Edmundson wrote:
> > > > I was under the impression they were disabled by the options we had
> > > > selected. Unfortunately that is not the case.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for clarifying on this.
> > > 
> > > I hope they can still be disabled.
> > > 
> > > They can't. I had spent some time looking before. Sorry.
> > 
> > However, we have solid hard data that it's a non-issue.
> > 
> > Gnome has been mirrored on github for nearly 2 years, in that time GTK has
> > had a grand total of 4 pull requests over time.
> > Most others (gedit, cheese, epiphany) have had 0.
> > 
> > Interestingly they have had literally hundreds of github "forks", which
> > implies it has led to sustantiable numbers of patches back using the
> > traditional methods
> > 
> > I've made a wiki page, which says how to turn a pull request into a
> > reviewboard submission.
> > https://techbase.kde.org/Development/GithubMirror
> > 
> > If we get any questions we can then just copy and paste that, and don't
> > need to spend any time explaining. Bam, done.
> 
> Thank you David, for your get-things-done approach in this controversial and
> tense situation. It is really much easier to solve than it seems from all
> these threads.
> 
> I'm personally in favor of letting projects decide whether to allow GitHub
> pull requests or not, but regardless of the final decision it is good to
> already have practical solutions like this techbase entry.
> 
> I find it unfortunate that some long time KDE contributors feel that KDE
> goals are threatened by all this. I understand their concerns, but I assign
> those concerns a different priority score. In fact, the inflexible policy
> towards 3rd party (including proprietary) infrastructure and processes we
> have in KDE deters me from bringing some of my own (currently
> GitHub-hosted) work under the KDE umbrella, as this would hinder some very
> productive working relationships with our downstreams and potentially
> result in *less* free open source software being produced, deployed and
> used.

That's something you have convinced yourself about, you don't have proof.

Cheers,
  Albert