On 18 September 2015 at 22:37, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> >> Am Freitag, 18. September 2015, 17:12:12 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta: >>> Ladies and gentlemen, as you read this mail github.com/kde is being >>> populated by the initial sync of all repositories. >> >> Pardon for the late input, missed the dynamic of the people behind this idea >> (and actually expected it would be shot down, at least to me it seems not a >> good idea to add value to a proprietary platform by also adding our source >> code there). >> >> Can we please only mirror those projects whose maintainers are okay with the >> added workload due to another public interface which allows interaction from >> 3rd-party? Too many people will not get that this is only a mirror, even if >> you put it in bold there. Or worse, not accept it is a mirror, because their >> time is more valueable than the time of the maintainers of course. >> >> I have no time (and actually also no interest) to care for people poking via >> github (incl. the time needed to redirect them to the real official KDE >> infrastructure and any bad vibrations because having to argue why I/we do not >> support github really). Other people might have that time and interest, so >> their decision. >> But I don't. I joined KDE for some reason and am doing my FLOSS software >> development here, because of certain values. >> Same would be true for sourceforge.net, gitlab.com, code.google.com (okay, >> dead) or whereever else some people think we should mirror because it's where >> "the people" are currently. >> >> So as maintainer I would like to have at least the repos of Okteta, >> libkoralle, cagibi removed from the official KDE github page. > > Sorry, but an incomplete mirror would cost additional effort to > maintain, as sysadmin would have to maintain a list of repositories > which were blacklisted. > Note that because a chunk of the code that drives this is in bash, it > is not easy to create such a list easily. > > Additionally, an incomplete mirror would be confusing to those who > expect the mirror to be complete - so this blacklist would result in > Sysadmin receving queries of "why isn't this repository on Github?". >
Wouldn't lack of opt-in from Friedrich just mean that the bot will be enabled with a friendly note (i.e. the default)? Allright, he (and his projects' members) won't be 'spammed'. > I suggest you instead put a clear notice in the README file noting > that patches and other code contributions should be submitted via our > usual infrastructure. This addition to README.md could be hopefully scripted in a clever way as we have so many projects. Myself I use README.md files for some time as KF5 do, so replacing these a whole README.md with a standard disclaimer is not an option; just saying, I know you did not mean replacing of couse. I'd welcome a nicely crafted template. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
