Maybe apache can ask atlassian if they can get an installation of bit
bucket for free?
Maarten
On 24 October 2015 13:56:20 Thibault Kruse <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Jochen Theodorou <[email protected]> wrote:
On 23.10.2015 13:47, Jim Jagielski wrote:
You do know, of course, that this workflow that has been used for
decades at the ASF was started by and built-around and designed-for
unpaid volunteers to do just that, right?
Oh,I would be careful with "used for decades". Just because people don't
know it better and got used it, doesn't mean it is good. I would for example
not want to change from Git (or Subversion) to CVS, just because CVS is in
use for decades. Back then, there was no real alternative. Today times are
different and there are different established workflows. And you know that
most people don't go to the extra effort of changing their established
workflow, just for a small commit. That means less contributions, which
means in the end less committers.
Times change and so do the methods.
The only reason I see to keep the centralized singled repo way is for legal
reasons. And since that is a very strong reason there is nothing really to
discuss with github for the moment. Unless there is some kind of cooperation
between apache and github, or apache offers something like github (I doubt
there is enough manpower for that).
I believe the alternatives right now are between a single centralized repo at
apache vs. a single centralized repo at github, so I see no need to
always mention
"centralized single".
Apache could set up something like gitlab for their repos,
(https://about.gitlab.com/),
without too much manpower involved.
Or Apache could decree that it is acceptable for projects to use
github to merge PRs
before syncing them to the "primary" repository at apache, and set up
syncing support
with commit hooks.
Since the word "primary" is open for interpretation, it might be
possible to convince
Apache that what makes a repo primary for a project is that releases
are made from
that repo, not that all merges are done there first.
