[Kde-scm-interest] gitorious

[Thomas Zander]

On Sunday 28. February 2010 11.30.32 Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> They hosted Amarok for free, and so far I had assumed it was a free
> service in general.

Free services are free because you can't go to them and demand better service 
if they are lacking.
If Google lost all your mail you can't go to anyone and hold them responsible. 
Thats the price of free service.

For most things thats fine. Its totally up to each individual to go with a free 
service or instead use a for-pay one. Most companies want accountability and 
thus choose the for-pay one. Its one of the main points of income for our 
profession.

For KDE as a community to say "Hey, everyone, we'll start using 
kde.gitorious.org as our official home now" we can't just assume all of the 
members of KDE will think "free" is worth it.
In other words; the responsible thing to do is to agree on some level of 
uptime, some level of support and that we don't get objections about the 
amount of traffic we generate. (which could very well violate any fair-use 
policies).

In other words; its the responsible thing to do.

I'm hoping that we can keep our schedule of moving KOffice there later this 
week. :)
-- 
Thomas Zander