On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Luca Beltrame <[email protected]> wrote: > Il Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:30:39 +0200, Vishesh Handa ha scritto: > > >> * There is nothing to do with selling your soul. Each of us has > > We have a Manifesto, and we should, ideally, strive to respect it.
The manifesto is not set in stone. Everything evolves. > >> * We're using Coverify - a non free tool * We're shipping binaries for >> Windows and Mac - non-free platforms. > > We're not *depending on it* nor it is important for contributions. We > could live without it. > Nor would we be depending on GitHub. We would still have our own infrastructure, which we would be recommending. >> We have to draw the line somewhere. > > Not enough into making our own code, which is the heart of our software, > dependent on proprietary tools. Again, not dependent. I'm not advocating throwing away our infrastructure and moving to GitHub. > > Of all your examples, you omitted the only shameful one for KDE; > opendesktop. And in that case, a lot of people do *not* like it. Urgh. OpenDesktop is just sad. It's strange we take issues with a proprietary extension to our infrastructure, which would be used in limited and case-by-case basis, when we use OpenDesktop so blatantly and for so many years. > > And besides... hasn't the BitKeeper story taught us *anything*? > I don't know about you guys, but it has taught me that we can be pragmatic and use proprietary software when the need arises. -- Vishesh Handa _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
