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

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 11.06.10 09:00:27, Eike Hein wrote:
> On 06/11/2010 08:44 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > does reviewboard support reviewing entire branches like gitorious does?
> 
> I *think* post-review by now has some level of support for posting
> a series / selection of git commits as a patch series to ReviewBoard,
> so that you can put up the extra commits in a branch, but I'm not
> sure.
> 
> 
> A few more general comments wrt/ "off-repo" feature branches:
> 
> One thing to keep in mind is that even if we had decided to install
> the Gitorious software, we would not have allowed free-for-all sign
> up (administrative overhead, capacity, liability, etc.), so the merge
> request facility would not be available to external contributors.

I think this will really be the big factor in our git-setup. Even if
people could push their local branch to some repository on gitorious or
github that still means they'd have to push all of kdelibs once there if
they want to contribute to it. And thats quite some upload.

And without being able as a kde developer to fetch a branch from a
public repo and merge it to our codebase we'd be basically were we are
right now with svn which would be a pity. In KDevelop we already had
merge-requests a few days (from a formerly unknown person) and merging
them was a 2 minute job (if at all). Having only a patch that
potentially even includes multiple commits that I'd have to integrate
would really reduce my motivation to do so.

I do understand the administrative overhead part though, so I'm mostly
eager to see how this will work out (i.e. if people are willing to host
their clones publicly or not) :)

Andreas

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