Hi, I feel like the threads on github are becoming a little bit unordered. This is my attempt to re-organize the key concepts, concerns and positions (please pardon me in advance if I didn't understand all the positions correctly). Please answer if you have additional positions, but let's try to keep it ordered, at least by numbers.
1) Github is a promotional channel for KDE. This is why we want to have a mirror on it. This was part of the original proposal, and I think it's a point on which most people agreed. We're exposing our software to the "social network for hackers", a target in which we are interested. 2) Pull requests are already open and not disableable. The real problem is how to answer to them. I see emerging a few positions here. 2.1) Answer them automatically with a bot rejecting it and saying "sorry, we do not allow pull requests, if you want to contribute please re-submit it to <link>". 2.2) People who think that 2.1 is a communication mistake, and would like to take the work and apply the patch on git.kde.org (in case it's good or trivial changes, e.g. fixing spelling mistakes), putting it on reviewboard otherwise and encouraging the user to follow-up there. They are not advocating moving code review on Github, and are actually explicitly against that. 2.3) An "in-between" position. People who would create an automated bot that can take the pull request, submit it to reviewboard automatically (indipendently of the size/complexity of the patch), and report this process to the pull requestor. They also don't want code reviews on github. 3) Other github usages. 3.1) By enabling pull requests it is possible to get additional funding for development. It would be nice to use them in order to access these resources. 3.2) All the other github features should be banned. I hope I managed to represent all your positions and points open to discussion, please add a numbered point if I didn't. I am personally for 2.3 and leaning towards 3.1. I am sorry for opening yet another thread, but I feel that after hundreds of e-mail we need a little bit of re-organization... Bye, -Riccardo _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
