[Kde-scm-interest] Alternate Git options

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 05/12/2010 02:21 AM, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Tuesday 11. May 2010 22.15.20 Eike Hein wrote:
>> On 05/11/2010 10:03 PM, Thomas Zander wrote:
>>> What about github?
>>> If they can support a git.kde.org a transition to something better (i.e.
>>> Free (as in, speech)) can be almost painless.
>>
>> Github is closed-source, that's really not an option for us IMHO.
> 
> While I admire your resolve, the choice should be a bit more practical after 
> having been stalled for so long.

I don't think this has anything to do necessarily with Eike's personal
resolve -- using a closed-source solution would simply never be accepted
by the broader KDE community. There are lots of great closed-source
solutions out there -- it'd be fantastic if we could use JIRA + FishEye
+ Crucible + Confluence, for instance -- but they simply don't have a
chance of passing the KDE-wide smell test because too many people would
never accept using closed-source software for this project. Especially
for our repo hosting, even with it being a DVCS.

This is why every decision like this ends with us beating our heads
against walls for a while -- often the most obvious solutions (GitHub
has some *really* nice features) are completely off limits, no matter
how long we are stalled.

--Jeff

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