On Monday 17 August 2015 09:16:02 Martin Sandsmark wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:35:09PM +0530, Bhushan Shah wrote: > > In my opinion first two are too wrong arguments to begin with.. If our > > repositories can not be found from outside then it requires > > improvement from our side. Putting source code on Github is not going > > to solve this problem. > > I don't think improving discoverability of our own infrastructure and > putting mirrors of our code on Github are mutually exclusive. I think both > will improve our "visibility" so to speak. > > > Even if people will use github to search projects eventually they will > > have > > to use our infrastructure to contribute. > > In my opinion all of our projects should have a short description about how > and where to send us their patches, even if we don't push things to Github. > If we ensure that our git repositories can be found via search engines > people still need to know how to contribute.
Agree. This is a good idea regardless of mirroring on GitHub. A mandatory preamble in the README.md for each KDE project could go something like this: == $name is a [KDE](https://www.kde.org/) project. The source code for $name can be found at [$git.kde.org/$name](https://$git.kde.org/$name). KDE welcomes you to [join KDE](https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved) and contribute to $name. You can report [issues and wishes]($git.kde.org/$name] (https://$git.kde.org/$name). <img style="float: right;" src="images/kdelogo.png" alt="KDE logo"/> == In this way, even if our repos are not completely indexed, the pagerank will increase a lot. > And I think lowering the threshold for people to contribute in general is > also something that should be done (and is being worked on already), and is > a bit separate from this thing about mirroring stuff on Github. > > > And about people being surprised that our code is not on Github, it is > > really clear that Github is _not_ standard place to get open source > > software. > > We might think so, but I don't think the rest of the world agrees. > > > So, In short IMO there is nothing wrong with having Github mirror but > > that should be read-only and we should have real reason to do it. > > Currently sysadmins are reworking our git infrastructure. So lets wait > > little bit and see how it goes and then think of this. > > Yeah, I agree that the reworking of our own infrastructure should be > prioritized, and we should disable the pull requests, bug reporting, etc. > for everything we put on github. _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
