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new tools to attract developers

Posted Aug 29, 2008 11:18 UTC (Fri) by jordip (guest, #47356)
Parent article: Akademy Redux: Release Team Members Propose New Development Process (KDE.News)

If Git is to be used, I _strongly_ recommend taking a look to:

http://www.github.com.

It is a Git hosting service with social networking bits on it.
Also, contribute and fork one owns private branch is as easy as click the "fork" button. Make improving software not interesting but something one can't stop doing!

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new tools to attract developers

Posted Aug 29, 2008 12:44 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

If it's git, forking is anyway as easy as cloning (indeed it's the same
operation).

(Is the point that this is forking *and publishing the fork* that's made
easy?)

new tools to attract developers

Posted Aug 30, 2008 11:18 UTC (Sat) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]

github is certainly interesting, but as it's not Free software, we're
looking into alternatives that provide similar functionality. Gitorious is
interesting in that regard. Surely, those tools (and a hopefully more
streamlined review process that becomes possible strongly speak for using
it.

new tools to attract developers

Posted Aug 30, 2008 12:53 UTC (Sat) by jordip (guest, #47356) [Link]

Yes, I also put the link to github on the dot and someone already made me realize that github is not opensource.
Gitorious seems to be similar in philosophy and I am sure that can be improved to make it a good tool for KDE.
It will be a lot of work to change to the new model (integrate to bug reporting system,etc) but I absolutely support you on this move.