[Kde-scm-interest] Alternate Git options

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 12.05.10 16:30:02, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 21:29:47 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > We just had a discussion in #kde-git where, essentially, we all voiced
> > our hesitations about going with Gitorious at this point. I know the
> > Shortcut guys are in a tough position, but realistically speaking:
> > 
> > * The code has seen only a handful of commits over the past two months
> > * Questions on the mailing list are not promptly attended to
> > * Merge requests for the software have been rotting for very long
> > periods of time
> > * The IRC channel is most often a dead zone
> > * The permission system is still not robust enough, and request for
> > enhancements go unanswered
> > 
> > I say all this a someone who has Gitorious set up at work and has people
> > using it...I'm fearful for its future there, and certainly don't think
> > given the current situation that KDE switching onto it at this point is
> > a wise move. Granted, none of us are privy to the Board's discussions,
> > but we do know that the cost is high.
> 
> Since Qt is on Gitorious as well, Nokia probably have the same problems.
> Are there any plans from the trolls to improve Gitorious or to switch to 
> something else? Or are there happy with it?

I have no clue wether they're happy  with it or not, but they still have a
separate git repo internally (afaik) and more importantly they are able to
just throw money or human resources at hoster if they want something.

Thats something we cannot do easily, hence they might indeed not have the
same problems.

Andreas 

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