2016-04-21 8:30 GMT+02:00 Frederik Schwarzer <schwar...@kde.org>: > Am 21.04.2016 07:56 schrieb Teo Mrnjavac: > > Hi, > > Can we call things as they are please? The name is "Travis CI", not >> "githubCI". Travis CI is open source, a separate product and service that >> happens to talk to GitHub. >> > > I think Albert's concern is (and I agree) that the meaning of a potential > Travis-hosted CI is shifting over time from "addition" to "main one". > People tend to do this. Oh, this one feature here, oh, the easier login > there ... > > In general I think 3rd party services should be avoided to get an official > status in KDE. Sourceforge suddenly started adding adware to all downloads. > Github can do the same. Tomorrow, nezt week, next year. They might announce > this first or they don't. The same way TravixCI could say, they now want > money or put ads all over the place. We have no control over this at all. > So it is better to invest some time and money to maintain our own > infrastructure. It makes us independent from some management decision made > by some company. Also, for an infrastructure inside KDE, we need people to > work on it. If now people start to use 3rd party sevices, less people are > looking at our infrastructure and it gets less attention. That's at least > why I would vote against that kind of "additions" made official. If some > developer wants to use something somewhere, I guess there is nothing to > hold him back but KDE shoud remain as self-contained as possible. Wth all > the little problems coming with this. >
To be fair, similar concerns should then be raised lalso against our usage of Telegram (which seems to me less open than Travis, btw). > > Regards, > Frederik > Cheers, Elvis
