On 21 September 2015 at 01:27, Michael Pyne <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, September 21, 2015 00:05:33 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: >> PS: Freedom of forking - derivative works is not so terrible, it's a >> pilliar of FOSS. > > Last time I tried it, running git-clone against our KDE git infrastructure > still worked just fine, and thus forking is quite easy to do. Did this change > at some point? > > I haven't tried running Github's git import tool since it requires an account, > but even their instructions for manually mirroring a git repo (for use with > private repos) seem easy enough: > https://help.github.com/articles/importing-a-git-repository-using-the-command-line/ > > Likewise for Bitbucket: > https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/import-code-from-an-existing-project-259358821.html#Importcodefromanexistingproject-PushingaGitproject >
The thing is: many people here raise concerns that the forking should happen within the KDE infrastructure. And I agree. If so, the infra should be accessible read-write for the 3rd-parties. > No one is arguing to *try* to make it more difficult to fork KDE or create > derivative works... the "Trinity Desktop Environment" is still up and kicking, > and others could be too with barely any work at all to setup the initial > fork... I see you're not used to the diverse term on github-alike sites: forking is more like creating a feature branch. The repo is separate but changes can be merged back (how it's a matter of tool set). This is the term used on the button. We're not talking about fork-fork like, say Trinity. Two ideas to solve the lack of r-w access without github: - give access to personal repos for with kde identity accounts (possible DoS attacks or draining resources) - use gitlab Community edition or other services that offer source code -- 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
