On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
I think I've been misunderstood! :) And I think I know why.
You guys are thinking/taking git repos, master vs. not master, and such.
I'm talking people. Specifically, potential contributors and making their
lives easier - making it easy for them to provide patches, open issues,
watch issues, comment on patches, etc. Github makes all that so much
simpler for people.
Put Adiscon bugzilla and Github issue tracking and ask 1000 people out
there which one they would be more likely to use.
Do the same with Adiscon repo vs Github one.
If I had to bet, I think Github versions would win for a number of reasons.
That said, sure, all repos should be kept. I'm just suggesting that user /
potential contributor facing ones be the one's that are easier for people
to use. Even bugzilla could be kept - I think github has hooks that would
let you catch all activity in github issues and keep bugzilla in sync.
But to maximize the chances of a potential contributor actually
contributing instead of being turned off by needing yes another account
somehwere or anything along those lines, I believe it makes more sense to
encourage use of the github repo, PRs,, commenting on them there, github
issue tracking, etc. Give this an honest push for 3-6 months.....
but this is just more of an argument for leaving everything available. You seem
to be pushing to make GitHub the only and official place to do rsyslog
development, doing so may be convienient for github users, but it's "yet anohter
account" for everyone else.
This is why we are so willing to make GitHub _A_ repository, but not to make it
_THE_ repository.
there are people who don't trust GitHub, we don't want to lock them out
(paranoid people can be a _wonderful_ resource :-)
David Lang
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