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On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:24:30 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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> > So perhaps it was unwise for us to get into a situation where either 1) we |
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> > violate the Social Contract or 2) we have to surmount a technically |
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> > difficult situation. |
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> I don't see how mirroring github on bugzilla violates our social |
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> contract, for several reasons: |
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> 1. Developers aren't required to post patches to bugzilla before |
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> committing them to the tree, so nothing is lost by posting patches on |
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> github that might otherwise not be posted anywhere. |
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> 2. Developers aren't required to open bugs on bugzilla before fixing |
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> bugs. So, nothing is lost by opening pull requests on github that |
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> might otherwise not be opened anywhere. |
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The problem comes not from the fact that GitHub stuff is not |
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mirrored on bugzilla, but from the fact that with GitHub |
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integration Gentoo becomes dependent on a proprietary |
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metadata, which is outside of control of our community. Bugzilla |
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mirroring was discussed only as one of possible solutions. |
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When talking about Gentoo Social Contract violation by GitHub |
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integration I apply to the following cause of the Social |
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Contract [1]: |
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However, Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or |
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metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, the |
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GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons - |
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Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the Open |
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Source Initiative (OSI). |
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If developer commits changes directly to git without bugzilla being |
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used, this is OK, because out git repo is free and we control it. |
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But when we start to depend on github pull requests or similar |
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proprietary metadata, the Social Contract is violated. |
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Suggested solution with pull requests mirroring on out git repo may |
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solve this issue if all other data (discussions, issues and so on) |
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will be mirrored as well (bugzilla looks like a good candidate for |
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mirroring here). |
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IMO the best solution will be to deploy some free platform like |
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Gogs for code review, pull request and all other fashionable |
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features as was already suggested in this thread by Hasufell. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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