[Kde-scm-interest] gitorious

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Diumenge, 28 de febrer de 2010, Thomas Zander va escriure:
> 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. :)

The question is wheter they give us enough to be worth not just hosting it on 
our servers like we've been doing with svn.

I'd say our sysadmins have been doing a wonderdul job here and i'd propose 
shifting that money to our of our own people if hosting a git server is that 
difficult compared to a svn server that needs that much dedication.

Albert