On Monday, August 17, 2015 08:57:24 AM Martin Sandsmark wrote: > 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.
I know how you feel and I hate myself also for having written the mail in the first place :-( > > 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
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