Am 21.04.2016 07:56 schrieb Teo Mrnjavac:
Hi,
Can we call things as they are please? The name is "Travis CI", not
"githubCI". Travis CI is open source, a separate product and service
that
happens to talk to GitHub.
I think Albert's concern is (and I agree) that the meaning of a
potential Travis-hosted CI is shifting over time from "addition" to
"main one". People tend to do this. Oh, this one feature here, oh, the
easier login there ...
In general I think 3rd party services should be avoided to get an
official status in KDE. Sourceforge suddenly started adding adware to
all downloads. Github can do the same. Tomorrow, nezt week, next year.
They might announce this first or they don't. The same way TravixCI
could say, they now want money or put ads all over the place. We have no
control over this at all. So it is better to invest some time and money
to maintain our own infrastructure. It makes us independent from some
management decision made by some company. Also, for an infrastructure
inside KDE, we need people to work on it. If now people start to use 3rd
party sevices, less people are looking at our infrastructure and it gets
less attention. That's at least why I would vote against that kind of
"additions" made official. If some developer wants to use something
somewhere, I guess there is nothing to hold him back but KDE shoud
remain as self-contained as possible. Wth all the little problems coming
with this.
Regards,
Frederik
