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On L, 2015-02-14 at 16:37 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Andreas K. Huettel |
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> <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> > We need to resolve this discussion somehow, by formulating a clear policy. |
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> > Which is why I'm putting it up here for discussion and will ask to add it to |
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> > the next council meeting agenda. |
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> I tend to agree with what seems to be the general sentiment. As long |
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> as we still accept patches via bugzilla/etc, then we aren't |
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> "depending" on github. |
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> FOSS alternatives are to be preferred, but since we don't have those |
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> set up, I don't see why we have to live without anything in the |
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> meantime. If somebody wants to host such a thing, I'd encourage them |
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> to do so, and work with infra if they'll accept help. |
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That is a good question. |
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I'm sorry if I am the only one to point this out, but: |
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We do NOT have even a WEB VIEW of our OFFICIAL overlays to see what is |
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going on there without BLINDLY cloning git URIs randomly! |
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Why should contributors care ONE BIT about things outside their comfort |
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zone of contributions, which is github in many cases these days? |
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After 6 months of complete blindness on official overlays, I was |
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eventually pointed at an outside cgit which shows what's going on there. |
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After 2 years of talking, we are still using CVS. |
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It is not surprising one bit that GitHub is the last hope to people |
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hoping to help out, with some folks willing to get their contributions |
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to actually MATTER. |
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We have failed the community to provide any reasonable free software |
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ways to contribute. So semi-open source ways it is. |
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With all the respect to the infra team they have done with their |
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existing capabilities, but we need to do better and find better ways to |
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achieve what we can with existing resources and fix this completely sad |
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state. |
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