On 05/12/2010 02:21 AM, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Tuesday 11. May 2010 22.15.20 Eike Hein wrote: >> On 05/11/2010 10:03 PM, Thomas Zander wrote: >>> What about github? >>> If they can support a git.kde.org a transition to something better (i.e. >>> Free (as in, speech)) can be almost painless. >> >> Github is closed-source, that's really not an option for us IMHO. > > While I admire your resolve, the choice should be a bit more practical after > having been stalled for so long.
I don't think this has anything to do necessarily with Eike's personal resolve -- using a closed-source solution would simply never be accepted by the broader KDE community. There are lots of great closed-source solutions out there -- it'd be fantastic if we could use JIRA + FishEye + Crucible + Confluence, for instance -- but they simply don't have a chance of passing the KDE-wide smell test because too many people would never accept using closed-source software for this project. Especially for our repo hosting, even with it being a DVCS. This is why every decision like this ends with us beating our heads against walls for a while -- often the most obvious solutions (GitHub has some *really* nice features) are completely off limits, no matter how long we are stalled. --Jeff
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