[Kde-scm-interest] KDE Git hosting status update

[Andrea Diamantini]

On Thursday 10 June 2010 20:22:30 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 6/10/2010 12:07 PM, Eike Hein wrote:
> > What we're not going to do, at least initially, is to allow
> > outside people to make an account with us and create perso-
> > nal clones of KDE repositories on our infrastructure. But
> > that is not a software question; it would have been the same
> > had we chosen to install Gitorious.
> > 
> > Note however that KDE developers are going to be able to
> > create personal clones.
> 
> Right. So as far as patches from random users, we end up in the same
> boat regardless of Gitorious vs. something else, because we're not
> prepared to open up a local Gitorious instance to the wide world.
> 
> As a result, it actually made the comparison a bit easier  :-)
> 
> That said, the workflow of Gitorious -- before they added the feature to
> pull the refs into the originating repo (which as Eike explained could
> actually be a *bad* thing) -- was to give you a set of instructions on
> adding the other repo as a remote, checking out the feature branch, and
> doing the merge. This could still occur -- it'd be nice if we find a way
> to have that workflow automatically generated, but certainly users could
> clone a repo, push up to Gitorious, GitHub, or their other preferred Git
> hosting solution, and then send us information as to the location,
> branch, and range of commits.
> 
> --Jeff

Hi all,
first of all I'd like to say I'm really impressed from the work you did.

About this point of "external contributes" I think we should find a "clear, 
shared & working" solution, for example at reviewboard level (don't know if 
it's possible anyway).
I say this because, as example, in rekonq more than 80% of the contributors 
are "external" and I love how it's easy for people click on the "clone 
repository" button and fix its own reported bugs :D

Regards,
-- 
Andrea Diamantini, adjam
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