On 19 September 2015 at 21:08, Eike Hein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 09/19/2015 08:58 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: >> Even using a review tool in the first place is something that the maintainer >> asks people to do. > > No. We advertise ReviewBoard (and later Phab) as a general > interface to throw code at our maintainers. "I don't look > at ReviewBoard" is not a socially tenable position in our > community in practice, just like "I don't look at GitHub" > won't be*. The pressure will be to cover all places. Some > people will say they don't want to or can't and abandon > one for the other, and we'll have conflict over it and it > will affect who develops for KDE and who maintains our > products. > > If your (generic you) position is that people should be > comfortable with GitHub and a KDE with only people who > are comfortable with GitHub would be a better KDE, then > you don't feel that is much of an issue, and that's more > or less what some of the people in the discussion propose, > unless they trick themselves into ideas like opt-in > or two-stage review actually being viable in a general > fashion. > > * = I've explained elsewhere why making GitHub opt-in > won't work, but in a nutshell: Repositories don't map > to projects; GitHub will spread over time across repo- > sitories because it's hard to opt out again; common > ownership implicitly means there are no "project X" > devs but only KDE devs, or rather that's what we would > like to see and optimize for, so GitHub for any repo > affects all devs.
Could you mention at least one KDE git repo that belongs to multiple projects? And thus maybe multiple even multiple groups of maintainers? -- 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
