On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
+1. Note that Phabricator, once we roll it out will also display the content of README.md files - so please ensure such a template is crafted in such a way that people can clearly understand what is meant if they're browsing the repository via Phabricator in the future. > > -- > regards, Jaroslaw Staniek Thanks, Ben > > 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 _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
