On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So, if _you_ accept pull requests to a repo in the KDE official mirror, >> > you >> > are making decisions for others, and are making other people do things. >> >> No I'm not. >> >> Boud, you're shipping Krita on Windows. You're uploading them on the >> KDE official website, you're thereby making me pay for Windows if I >> want to test it and contribute to the project, you are making >> decisions for others. >> >> Does this argument really hold? > > I was not aware that I am forced to use the windows version of Krita. I just > apt installed it and its just working fine. >
I don't follow. In this case of Krita if you wanted to contribute to the project as a tester or provide some kind of QA, you would need to use Windows. How does that relate to installing Krita? > Also it doesn´t lock in any development resources to a specific proprietary > platform. At least I don´t see how it can do so. Testing is part of development. If you're offering Krita on Windows, someone is testing it, creating the binaries, etc. > > So you can argue for github.com: But its opt-in and only for some repos? How > do you make sure it doesn´t create pressure and expectancy that this will be > switched on for all the other repos if pull requests are enabled in parts of > the *official* KDE github.com mirror? > > I do not see the Windows version of Krita creating any pressure for people to > switch to Windows. I certainly do not feel any pressure to do so. > How do you then feel pressured to use Github if most development happens on kde? > Thus I think its important to compare apples to apples and pears to pears. > > Pull requests and probably bug reports on github.com affect the development > process. Providing a Windows version of Krita does not, despite adding some > portability to the codebase. Testing and QA are important parts of creating a product. They most certainly are part of the "development process". Providing a Windows version of Krita does force me to install these tools if I wish to contribute to that part of Krita. -- Vishesh Handa _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
