On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > This is the kind of policies that kill user contributions. I am very > sad to witness this once again. >
I have mixed feelings for this very reason. The concept of accepting contributions on github is an EXCELLENT one. The problem is that it is proprietary, which creates division, and could potentially create problems down the road (no way to know - the sorts of things that can happen anytime you depend on proprietary software). > I will take care of the github mirroring myself. For those who will > merge pull requests on github, please take extra care to resolve the > merges properly. > So, first, THANK YOU! Second, I think this really points to there being value for something like Gerrit available on Gentoo, which might be the best of both worlds. I've never used it myself but I'm tempted to install it just to start messing with it personally. I'd be interested in whether anybody is familiar with it and doesn't feel that it is an appropriate tool for us to use. If the consensus is overwhelmingly positive then it would be great to have it deployed on Gentoo infra. And yes, I realize that this is easy to type, but hard work to implement. I see dual-workflows like Github as an interim solution. Personally, I'm not entirely opposed to even a Github-only solution as an interim if we were actively working on something FOSS-based, however I realize that not all might agree on that. Rich
