On Saturday, 2015-09-19, 17:19:16, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Saturday, September 19, 2015 10:58:09 AM Michael Pyne wrote: > > Is anyone actually arguing this point in the way you ask? No one's asking > > to prevent "one offs" entirely, the core of the issue is that KDE > > development should happen *within* KDE-the-whole-community, not *apart > > from* KDE. > > Nobody is proposing to move there the development! And pull requests are > really "one offs", no stable contributor would sensibly use them as a > regular basis, just like no stable contributor doesn't get an account and > develops only through mailing patches... > > This whole thread started with one sentence which started like "if somebody > sends me a patch, it doesn't matter if she/he sends it to me via mail, > github, or by post... if it's good work, I am going to integrate it". I > think we should keep to that and not escalate it to "some KDE projects move > to github for development". > > I think there was some confusion on that point, so let me state this again: > the agreement is that github mirrors ARE going to be kept read-only, so > someone with a KDE account and the developer karma still has to push the > patch to git.kde.org (or reviewboard or so on...), if he wants to see it > integrated. I don't see how that destroys our values. I just see it as a > way through which potential newcomers can submit their first contribution, > instead of mailing a patch. > > At least, in my view, the mirrors will STILL be *READ-ONLY*.
Exactly! How would a mirror even be read/write? We are not going to upload a private key to github to allow some script there to push and we are not going to automatically and blindly pull and merge from github either, no? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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