Hi! Just to preface this a bit; I argued pretty vehemently against doing this some time ago on IRC (like, years ago I think), so I hate myself a bit for agreeing with you here.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 07:46:44AM +0200, Martin Graesslin wrote: > Whether we like it or not, github has become a place to look for free > software > nowadays and if you are not on github your software just doesn't exist. Given > that we can say KDE doesn't produce source code because we are not on github. I still don't like the Github UI personally, and I think the behavior it encourages wrt. pull requests and whatnot is bad, but I agree with you that open source code (whether it is free software isn't important in this context) doesn't really "exist" for a growing amount of developers if it isn't on github. I guess you could say that Github is the biggest marketing platform for open source today. > I suggest that we: > * introduce an official mirror for all KDE repositories on github > * replace all existing (non-official) clones > * disallow pull-requests on github to not replace our development model by a > proprietary platform. I agree with this, and fwiw for the last point I find the way pull requests are done on Github to be bad in general (for once I agree with Linux Torvalds). We also need to ensure that the README files for as many as possible of the projects we push to Github have a short but prominent notice about where and how people can send patches for review. As for some more practical aspects, I think it makes sense to contact this person and ask politely if we could have the name: https://github.com/kde -- Martin Sandsmark _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
