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Subject:    Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github
From:       Shantanu Tushar Jha <shantanu () kde ! org>
Date:       2015-09-19 14:51:28
Message-ID: CABQ4Km_=WZ72FgsVWWcPTiueXM5_oFu8btOcrn8PvxMAnup7zg () mail ! gmail ! com
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Its sad that this got completely ignored by the members of this discussion,
the argument is very valid.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano@tiscali.it>
wrote:

> Il 19 settembre 2015 12:00:11 CEST, Vishesh Handa <me@vhanda.in> ha
> scritto:
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame@kde.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > And besides... hasn't the BitKeeper story taught us *anything*?
> > >
> >
> > I don't know about you guys, but it has taught me that we can be
> > pragmatic and use proprietary software when the need arises.
>
>
> There is a big FLOSS project I spend my daily work for, called OpenStack.
> Given its target, contributions comre from companies and certainly normal
> users are not too interested about it and even more about how it is
> developed. Despite this, it has a strong manifesto with interesting values:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Open
>
> and that extends to the infrastructure too. Leaving aside the usage of
> launchpad for bugs (there is a replacement which is advanced state of
> development), guess what? Infra team has an own git, contributions go to
> the internal gerrit. Github is just a mirror and I didn't hear anyone
> screaming or complaining about loss of contributions.
>
> Now, if they can do that, why can't we do it?
>
> Ciao
>
> --
> Luigi
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<div dir="ltr">Its sad that this got completely ignored by the members of this discussion, the argument \
is very valid.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at \
3:47 PM, Luigi Toscano <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:luigi.toscano@tiscali.it" \
target="_blank">luigi.toscano@tiscali.it</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Il 19 settembre 2015 \
12:00:11 CEST, Vishesh Handa &lt;<a href="mailto:me@vhanda.in">me@vhanda.in</a>&gt; ha scritto:<br> &gt; \
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Luca Beltrame &lt;<a \
href="mailto:lbeltrame@kde.org">lbeltrame@kde.org</a>&gt;<br> &gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
</span><span class="">&gt; &gt; And besides... hasn&#39;t the BitKeeper story taught us *anything*?<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I don&#39;t know about you guys, but it has taught me that we can be<br>
&gt; pragmatic and use proprietary software when the need arises.<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>There is a big FLOSS project I spend my daily work for, called OpenStack. Given its target, \
contributions comre from companies and certainly normal users are not too interested about it and even \
more about how it is developed. Despite this, it has a strong manifesto with interesting values:<br> <a \
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Open" rel="noreferrer" \
target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Open</a><br> <br>
and that extends to the infrastructure too. Leaving aside the usage of launchpad for bugs (there is a \
replacement which is advanced state of development), guess what? Infra team has an own git, contributions \
go to the internal gerrit. Github is just a mirror and I didn&#39;t hear anyone screaming or complaining \
about loss of contributions.<br> <br>
Now, if they can do that, why can&#39;t we do it?<br>
<br>
Ciao<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Luigi<br>
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clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Shantanu Tushar      (UTC +0530)<br><a \
href="http://www.shantanutushar.com" target="_blank">http://www.shantanutushar.com</a></div> </div>


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