[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Git development moved to github

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 07:04:17PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 05:46 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >There's also no real need for it, I don't understand why you keep
> >insisting there is given how well things have been working so far.
> 
> I do understand and am aware of the complication ( legal and otherwise
> social aspect of it etc ) involved with bringing funds to the project.
> 
> Thou you might feel things have been working so far I do not.
> 
> Has it worked? yes barely, Could we do better? very much so.
> 
> I feel that the community has been showing growth pain for quite sometime.
> patches sent to the mailinglist have gone unnoticed, unreviewed. bugs filed
> in bz.fd.o being poorly handled etc.

Creating a foundation isn't going to change this :)

> That is why I started working ( a while back ) on finding suitable bug
> tracker, buying the systemd.community domain etc. with sole intent to
> offload work of developers ( and show up with proof of concept on one the
> hackfest to start this discussion for real )
> 
> The reason I'm being so persistent is because I believe this is the right
> course forward at this point in time to offload work from developers and for
> the growth and improvement of the project hence I should give it my best to
> try to see that through.
> 
> Also I'm afraid that the move to github will not yield the result that is
> being sought and arguably is necessary ( most certainly not alone)  on top
> of that people seem to have mixed feelings about it's process and workflows
> as well so deciding something like this behind closed door then simply
> announce it was not the right approach towards the community that is if the
> intend is truly to build,have and sustain a community but here we are.

How about we try the github stuff for a while now and see how well it
works, or does not work, and then iterate from there based on
experience?  Already it seems to me that the development traffic on
patches has gone up, but I have not really been tracking numbers at all,
neither does raw numbers accurately describe anything really.

So let's try this and see how it goes.

thanks,

greg k-h